Substituting in a visual selection: ordinary atom \%V

[firmart]

Issue type

• Bug report

Environment

Emacs version: GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-10-16 Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04 Evil version: Evil version evil-git-76301564c Evil installation type: MELPA Graphical/Terminal: Graphical Tested in a make emacs session (see CONTRIBUTING.md): Yes

Reproduction steps

• Start Emacs

Example from https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Search_and_replace_in_a_visual_selection#Substituting_in_a_visual_selection

• write music amuse fuse refuse in the buffer
• select amuse fuse (^wvee)
• enter the following command: :s/\%Vus/az/g or :'<,'>s/\%Vuse/az/g
• <RET>

Expected behavior

The result should behave as vim: music amaze faze refuse.

Actual behavior

Do nothing.

Further notes

See http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/pattern.html#/%V

[ignacio-gc]

Searching only over a visual range doesn't work either: /\%Vpattern. https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Search_only_over_a_visual_range