[Bug: 21.4.13] query replace regexp bug

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Hickman <Hickman> writes:

    Steve> I attempted to remove the numbers at the begining of the
    Steve> lines in the file pasted into the end of this email by
    Steve> doing a query-replace-reqexp using the expression:
    Steve> ^\s-*[0-9]*: as the match expression and replacing it with
    Steve> nothing.  It worked, but it didn't remove all the numbers
    Steve> the first time. I had to repeatedly apply it to get them
    Steve> all out.

I've verified this in 21.5.20.  So, I don't think upgrading to 21.4.17
will help.

For some reason, when the match matches the entire content of a whole
line except the newline, the loop skips over the next line.  This is
quite peculiar, and clearly a bug.  It's going to take a while to fix,
I'm afraid; I'm not sure where the problem is going to be.


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