Hi all, I'm writing to you all together because you all suffer from the same regexp bug. I suspect it could be caused by a library you all share? I have only found that (X)Emacs doesn't suffer from it.
If you create a new file with these tags: <test><test2> Try and replace the tags with "hello" (no quotes) using this regexp: <.*?> [The "?" is supposed to make the any character matching non-greedy]. Here's what happens in various packages: Bluefish pre0.7 HTML editor: The whole of <test><test2> is incorrectly selected. Kate 1.0 (using KDE 2.2): The whole of <test><test2> is incorrectly selected. gnp (gnotepad+ 1.3.1): 0 replacements found. nedit version 5.1.1: Very weird. If I replace the above string with "hello" (no quotes) the output becomes: hello<hello>hello<hello> In all cases the end result should be: hellohello Only XEmacs is capable of generating the correct answer. I'm running an up-to-date version of Debian unstable on x86. I'm pretty new to regular expressions so I hope I haven't made an elementary mistake (but I have XEmacs as my comparison :-) I'm only subscribed to debian-user and debian-devel. Please only follow up to the relevant groups or individuals. Regards, Adam
