From f6d6df46476f5abddb46c45afb90fa7f7362fa0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michele Calgaro Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:08:41 +0900 Subject: Improved description of "what's this" for placeholder in Find and Replace dialog. This resolves to bug 2558. Signed-off-by: Michele Calgaro --- doc/kate/part.docbook | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') 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: Use placeholders -If enabled, any occurrence of \N where -N is an integer number, will be replaced +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 \N (where +N 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 -- cgit v1.2.1