[kde-doc-english] subpatterns in regexp replacement text

[Albert Astals Cid]

Kate guys, what do you think about this?

Cheers,
  Albert

El Dimarts, 8 de juliol de 2014, a les 17:42:47, Eric Schwarzenbach va 
escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to suggest that in the regexp section of the Kate docs
> (http://www.kate-editor.org/doc/regex-patterns.html), you mention, or
> even emphasize, that you can reference subpatterns in the replacement
> text. This a is a very powerful feature which is absolutely necessary
> for doing certain kinds of replacements, and so might even warrent its
> own subsection.
> 
> For example, find
> 
> PROBLEM ([0-9]+)
> 
> and replace with
> 
> <bold>PROBLEM \1</bold>
> 
> 
> I make this suggestion after I went looking for this in the kate
> documentation. I've done this before with other regexp tools but
> couldn't remember the syntax. I couldn't find it, and ended up looking
> it up in some other (non-Kate) regexp writeup and the syntax I found
> worked. Looking at the documentation again, I think the Sub Patterns
> section essentially explained the basic feature, just not in the context
> of replacement, or mentioning that this was possible at all. Perhaps a
> section dedicated to what you can do with the replacement text would be
> the place for this.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eric
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