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| author | Michele Calgaro <michele.calgaro@yahoo.it> | 2018-08-21 00:08:41 +0900 |
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| committer | Michele Calgaro <michele.calgaro@yahoo.it> | 2018-08-21 00:09:17 +0900 |
| commit | 0057230e05e0010bd64db1acf440f886c3eb9429 (patch) | |
| tree | 71270b12a8a90caa78882d5b85b6482ba9d6b1d6 /doc/kate | |
| parent | 9ef8de40e224054718da2af38e0ca65abbf5305d (diff) | |
| download | tdebase-0057230e05e0010bd64db1acf440f886c3eb9429.tar.gz tdebase-0057230e05e0010bd64db1acf440f886c3eb9429.zip | |
Improved description of "what's this" for placeholder in Find and
Replace dialog. This resolves to bug 2558.
Signed-off-by: Michele Calgaro <michele.calgaro@yahoo.it>
(cherry picked from commit f6d6df46476f5abddb46c45afb90fa7f7362fa0b)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/kate')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/kate/part.docbook | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/kate/part.docbook b/doc/kate/part.docbook index ad74be9c7..6d7524797 100644 --- a/doc/kate/part.docbook +++ b/doc/kate/part.docbook @@ -353,8 +353,10 @@ additional options:</para> <varlistentry id="replace-use-placeholders"> <term><guilabel>Use placeholders</guilabel></term> <listitem> -<para>If enabled, any occurrence of <keycap>\N</keycap> where -<keycap>N</keycap> is an integer number, will be replaced +<para>When regular expressions are enabled, you can select part of the searched text by enclosing it +within parenthesis. Placeholders allow you to insert such text in the replacement string, similar to +how backreferences are used in sed. When enabled, any occurrence of <keycap>\N</keycap> (where +<keycap>N</keycap> is an integer number, e.g. \1, \2, ...) will be replaced with the corresponding string capture (parenthesized substring) from the search pattern. A button for listing all available string captures will also be enabled. You can click on any of the available string captures |