Clockwork Jam wrote:
> I'm seeing some odd behaviour when passing a submatch to substitute() > when evaluating a regexp in GVim 7.2. Say I have the following two- > line file: > > the second line > appears below > > If I place the cursor at the start of the file and execute the > following substitution: > > :s/\v(the\s)(\_.*)/\=submatch(1) . submatch(2) > > then it works correctly and I see: > > the second line > appears below > > However, if I instead execute the following substitution on the same > pattern: > > s/\v(the\s)(\_.*)/\=substitute(submatch(1),'the','no','') . submatch > (2) > > then I see only the following line: > > no second line > > In both of these examples, the second submatch spans both lines. But > in the second example, after calling substitute() with the first > match, the second match retains only the text that appears on the > first line. Is this a bug? Well, either a bug or an unsupported feature. What happens is that the substitute() call clears the submatches and sets new ones. I suppose the submatches should be saved and restored. -- I bought a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out. /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
