Re: query-replace-regexp: Can't use \0 in TO-STRING

[Tino Calancha]

On Sat, 6 May 2017, zhanghj wrote:

> Tino Calancha <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > The docstring for `query-replace-regexp' was updated in commit 38f4b8ea615
> > to fix Bug#23884.
> > Apparently, \0 has never referred to the whole match in this command
> > (\& it does), so we might want to skip \0 from this docstring and the
> > manual.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tino
> Why not \0? I think \0 is more intuitive and also used in vim.
I agree is more intuitive, and it works in `replace-match', or instance:
(mapcar
 (lambda (group)
   (let ((str "foo123"))
     (when (string-match "[a-z]+\\([1-9]+\\)" str)
       (replace-match "bar" nil nil str group))))
 (list 0 1))
=> ("bar" "foobar")

Are you willing to write a patch to implement it?