Again, a comment on this: you can use the “global” flag for regexps (/foo/g or new RegExp(“foo”, “g”) ) to make it match each link. Now, if you use the “string”.replace(regexp, function) syntax, and make the function return the replacement, it will globally replace all “bug #1234″ occurrences with the right link. Which will work, and doesn’t need recursion (however clever that is).

For more info, check out: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Global_Objects/String/replace#Specifying_a_function_as_a_parameter

Cheers,
Gijs