Let's say I want to replace all occurrences of XX with X*X. If there is XXXX in text, it will be replaced with X*XX*X, not X*X*X*X as one could expect. GWD reads the first two X and replace them with X*X. Then it continues from the third X. To produce X*X*X*X GWD should "go back" one character after the first replace.

The same result can be gained if after replacing all occurrences GWD would check if there is still matching occurrences. It should repeat checking as long as no occurrences are found. EVE editor in VAX/VMS environment does this. After first replace round it tries to find more matches and if found, it asks the user if he/she wants to do more replaces. This would be a nice feature in GWD too.