replace regexp oddity

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From: Keiji Kanazawa
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 1990 16:01

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Do an interactive query-replace-regexp of ``\([a-z]\)width'' with
``\1_width'' on the following text, with case-fold-search non-nil.

FOOwidth

I end up with

FOO_Width

This behavior seems wrong.  (For emacs-18.55)

Keiji Kanazawa
kgk@cs.brown.edu

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