Permit the use of regular expression match and replace in posting styles.

[gnus] / texi / gnus.texi

diff --git a/texi/gnus.texi b/texi/gnus.texi
index 1ad6fd4..207ca42 100644 (file)
--- a/texi/gnus.texi
+++ b/texi/gnus.texi
@@ -13429,14 +13429,20 @@ the headers of the article; if the value is @code{nil}, the header
 name will be removed.  If the attribute name is @code{eval}, the form
 is evaluated, and the result is thrown away.
 
-The attribute value can be a string (used verbatim), a function with
-zero arguments (the return value will be used), a variable (its value
-will be used) or a list (it will be @code{eval}ed and the return value
-will be used).  The functions and sexps are called/@code{eval}ed in the
-message buffer that is being set up.  The headers of the current article
-are available through the @code{message-reply-headers} variable, which
-is a vector of the following headers: number subject from date id
-references chars lines xref extra.
+The attribute value can be a string, a function with zero arguments
+(the return value will be used), a variable (its value will be used)
+or a list (it will be @code{eval}ed and the return value will be
+used).  The functions and sexps are called/@code{eval}ed in the
+message buffer that is being set up.  The headers of the current
+article are available through the @code{message-reply-headers}
+variable, which is a vector of the following headers: number subject
+from date id references chars lines xref extra.
+
+In the case of a string value, if the @code{match} is a regular
+expression, a @samp{gnus-match-substitute-replacement} is proceed on
+the value to replace the positional parameters @samp{\@var{n}} by the
+corresponding parenthetical matches (see @xref{Replacing the Text that
+Matched, , Text Replacement, elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}.)
 
 @vindex message-reply-headers