Search and replace with regular expression has bad behaviour

[supercoolm]

when I use this regular expressino to replace many entries each with different value

(?<=TITLE ").*?(?=")

	TITLE "unknowXML"

	FLAG "OFF"

	Location "."

	TITLE "HTML"

	FLAG "OFF"

	Location "./data/root"

	TITLE "HTML"

	FLAG "ON"

	Location "/home/user/nonroot"

	.

	.

	.

	

to something like

	TITLE "1"

	FLAG "OFF"

	Location "."

	TITLE "2"

	FLAG "OFF"

	Location "./data/root"

	TITLE "3"

	FLAG "ON"

	Location "/home/user/nonroot"

	.

	.

	.

	

eveytime I replaced one, and it automatically jump to next match.
The problem is when I enter the new target value for replace and click on replace, it directly replace next value and skip current jumped value

so the result becomes

	TITLE "1"

	FLAG "OFF"

	Location "."

	TITLE "HTML"

	FLAG "OFF"

	Location "./data/root"

	TITLE "2"

	FLAG "ON"

	Location "/home/user/nonroot"

	.

	.

	.

	

I think it’s a bad behaviour, but not sure if it’s a bug

[Yutaka Emura]

Currently, this is the specification although it is not a good behavior.

When you press “Replace” for the second time, (?<=TITLE ) part does not match the current selection.

However, you can try this:

TITLE “.*?”

TITLE “1”

and you will see a good behavior.

[supercoolm]

is it possible to have an option to turn off the auto jump feature?
I think by disable automatically goto next match will solve the issue

I was demostrate regular expression in a presentation and having to explain it’s EmEditor’s behaviour issue was kind of awkward.

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