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authorMichele Calgaro <[email protected]>2018-08-21 00:08:41 +0900
committerMichele Calgaro <[email protected]>2018-08-21 00:08:41 +0900
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Improved description of "what's this" for placeholder in Find and
Replace dialog. This resolves to bug 2558. Signed-off-by: Michele Calgaro <[email protected]>
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@@ -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