Author: wikibugs

Description:
Reporting against Babaco Release. (Hosted on http://prototype.wikimedia.org)

Steps to Reproduce ::

1. Start creating a new page
2. Add some text in the edit window
3. Click 'Search and replace' icon (e.g : Testing MediaWiki )
4. Set search for (Test* ) and Replace with (TESTING)
5. Check flag 'Treat search string as a regular expression'
6. Click 'Replace' button

<<Testing is replaced with TESTINGing >>

Expected Outcome ::

• in Search string is ignored
• Also other regular expressions are ignored (^ , $ etc)

Test Environment (Client) ::
Browser (User-Agent): Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Javascript: Enabled
Cookies Enabled: Enabled
Java Enabled: Enabled
CPU class/type: OS/CPU Windows NT 6.0
Screen Width x Height: 1280 x 800
Screen Color Depth: 32

Version: unspecified
Severity: major
OS: Windows Vista
Platform: PC
URL: http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Releases/Babaco/Compatibility_Matrix