From c88fae3310f36ef222882d3dd8b5aaaa469742d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:04:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] search: match a beginning-of-line anchor just once per line

This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48635.
---
 src/search.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/search.c b/src/search.c
index 0dc3853b..1ac2dee1 100644
--- a/src/search.c
+++ b/src/search.c
@@ -745,8 +745,8 @@ ssize_t do_replace_loop(
 	    }
 
 #ifdef HAVE_REGEX_H
-	    /* Don't find the same zero-length match again. */
-	    if (match_len == 0)
+	    /* Don't find the same zero-length or BOL match again. */
+	    if (match_len == 0 || (*needle == '^' && ISSET(USE_REGEXP)))
 		match_len++;
 #endif
 
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