Search/replace causes double replacement with capture group

[casey-speer]

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What did you do?

With a list of words, one per line:

div
span
input
script

Press : to enter command mode, type %s/(.*)/'$1',/g, hit enter.

What did you expect to happen?

The list of words is transformed to:

'div',
'span',
'input',
'script'

What happened instead?

The list is transformed to:

'div','',
'span','',
'input','',
'script''',

Technical details:

• VSCode Version: 1.11.2
• VsCodeVim Version: 0.6.16
• OS: MacOS 10.11.6

[xconverge]

related

#991

[Chillee]

With the new PR #1725, this issue is fixed as long as you use
%s/.*/'$1',/g

[Chillee]

This is added with the new "enableNeovim" option (on master).