FM12: Quirks in Find/replace using RegEx (Perl)

[Klaus Daube]

Friends of FramMaker, please judge.

I want to find incorrectly ended paragraphs (missing punctuation).
For example the following 4 lines are paragraphs, the first 2 correct,
the next two incorrect:

This is the first paragraph!
And this is the second one.
And here a third
And a fourth one:

RegEx Find/Replace with these settings:
Find:  ([^\.!?])\n
Repl:  $1.\n
Result: find is correct, replacement is n instead of paragraph end
With repl = $1.\r        replacement is a forced newline; correct, but not wanted.

Find:  ([^\.!?])(\n)
Repl:  $1.$2
This creates a correct replacement!

IMHO the behaviour of not honoring \n as an 'end of paragraph' for the replacement is 
a bug. Do You agree?

Klaus Daube
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