Problem while doing query-replace-regexp

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From: Dieter Woerz
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 04:06

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I am annoyed by a feature of emacs in query-replace and
query-replace-regexp. When I execute the command
	query-replace-regexp \(.*\) abc/def/\1/xyz
I get different results depending on the input.
For the following inputs I get the associated outputs, but I would
like to get the string in brackets

1. uvw -> abc/def/uvw/xyz (abc/def/uvw/xyz)
2. Uvw -> Abc/Def/Uvw/Xyz (abc/def/Uvw/xyz)
3. UVW -> ABC/DEF/UVW/XYZ (abc/def/UVW/xyz)

As you see, in case 1 I get what I want, but in the cases 2 and 3 I
don't. The thing isn't even that predictable. If the source string
(uvw) contains a non-alphanumerical character the behaviour of the
replace changes to 1.

I would like to know, if there is some variable to set, so that I can
always get the strings in the brackets.

Thanks in advance

Dieter

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Subject: Problem while doing query-replace-regexp
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