<p>I would like to request a feature to allow named groups (or backreferences to more than 9 numbered groups).</p>
<p>A ticket on sourceforge [1] says (regarding replacement):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"Geany is limited to 9 groups in regular expressions. If you try to use a group after the 10th, it is replaced with the first group and the second digit of the group number. For example, if the group 1 is "first" and the 10 group is "tenth", \10 is replaced as "first0".</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It seems that it is not possible to reference more than 9 numbered capture groups in the regular expression <em>replace</em> field, even though Geany allows it in the regex <em>search</em> field. In the search field, \10 is recognized correctly.</p>
<p>[1] <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/geany/bugs/1042/">https://sourceforge.net/p/geany/bugs/1042/</a></p>

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