Re: [vile] replace multiple chars (used to work)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, hymie! wrote:

> Greetings.  Long-time vile user.
>
> As recently as version 9.7, I could use the construct
> <number> r <character>
> to replace a string of characters with a matching number of a single
> character.
>
> For example,  given the string
> hymie!
> the command 5r- would change it to
> -----!
>
> Starting with 9.8 , the string of characters is replaced with a single
> character, so the string
> hymie!
> becomes
> -!
>
> Is this a bug or an intentional change?  If it's intentional, is there
> a way to replicate the older behavior?

It looks like a bug (probably introduced as a side-effect of changes
I was making to handle multi-byte characters).  I'll isolate it and fix.

thanks

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