On Sep 18,  8:49am, Trent Shipley wrote:

> I had already done this, and on your advice I have done so again.  All I get
> from C-h a regexp is a list that indicates EMACS has a built-in macro to
> perform an interactive 'replace-regexp-with-string' but no interactive
> facility that amounts to 'replace-regexp1-with-regexp2-refering-to-regexp1.'

Could you give us an example of what it is that you'd like to do?

(I know very little about emacs so I probably won't be able to help
anyway, but I am intrigued, nevertheless.)