bug#12622: replace-regexp-in-string

[Andreas Schwab]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> Also would expect a respective form working with replace-regexp-in-string
>
> (setq mystring "[.A foobar] [.B baz]")
> (replace-regexp-in-string  "\\_<\\w+\\_>" (concat "\\\\" 
> (match-string-no-properties 0) )   mystring)
>
> but it fails.

Fails in which way?  What do you expect, and what do you get?

> When commenting "(match-string 0 str)" as follows it subr.el it works
>
>       (setq matches
>             (cons (replace-match (if (stringp rep)
>                                      rep
>                                    (funcall rep
>                                               ;; (match-string 0 str)
> ))
>                                  fixedcase literal str subexp)
>
> Which has some plausibility: when receiving a user-specified function, there 
> must not be that argument.

Why?  That's what the doc string documents.

Andreas.

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