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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/replace.el | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/replace.el b/lisp/replace.el index 2e877305c01..70d3ec73f88 100644 --- a/lisp/replace.el +++ b/lisp/replace.el @@ -2622,9 +2622,13 @@ It is called with three arguments, as if it were `re-search-forward'.") (defvar replace-regexp-function nil - "Function to convert a search string to a regexp to replace. -It's bound to `isearch-regexp-function' when searching -for a string to replace.") + "Function to convert the FROM string of query-replace commands to a regexp. +This is used by `query-replace', `query-replace-regexp', etc. as +the value of `isearch-regexp-function' when they search for the +occurences of the string/regexp to be replaced. This is intended +to be used when the string to be replaced, as typed by the user, +is not to be interpreted literally, but instead should be converted +to a regexp that is actually used for the search.") (defun replace-search (search-string limit regexp-flag delimited-flag case-fold &optional backward) |