On 2 Sep 2008, at 21:40, Patrick James wrote:
That is a very useful thing to know about. It does strike me as very strange that the Oniguruma Regular Expressions system is like this.
For the records, the replacement format string is completely unrelated to Oniguruma.
I haven't as yet encountered a situation where this was going to be a problem but I'd noticed that it doesn't seem to be accounted for in Oniguruma.
It is not, no, except for using conditional insertions as sort of a hack. There will however be a significant update to this syntax in… the future :) This will allow using ${1} etc. like in snippets.