From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: skip-chars-forward error "Invalid ISO C character class" Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:51:05 -0400 (EDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087254741 3247 80.91.224.253 (14 Jun 2004 23:12:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:12:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 15 01:12:08 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ba0ca-00031i-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:12:08 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ba0ca-0005GG-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:12:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Ba0dU-0001gC-9v for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:13:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Ba0dG-0001fr-BQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:12:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Ba0dE-0001fc-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:12:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Ba0dD-0001fY-Ud for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.114.245] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ba0bp-0006LV-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:51:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:24974 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24974 Today's CVS Update, Mon, 2004 Jun 14 11:35 UTC GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.2.4) started with /usr/local/src/emacs/src/emacs -Q `texinfo-all-menus-update' fails on the following line because of a bug in `skip-chars-forward': * Introduction:: To repeat the error, place point at the end of the line, after the :: and evaluate (skip-chars-forward "[:.,\t\n ]+") When the line is in the *scratch* buffer, this error message will be generated: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid ISO C character class") skip-chars-forward("[:., \n ]+") eval((skip-chars-forward "[:., \n ]+")) eval-expression((skip-chars-forward "[:., \n ]+") nil) call-interactively(eval-expression) recursive-edit() byte-code("ÆÇ !� �\n!ˆ ƒB `|ˆ)Ìcˆeb�ÎÏ \"� ˆ\n@Ñ=ƒN debug(error (error "Invalid ISO C character class")) skip-chars-forward("[:., \n ]+") eval((skip-chars-forward "[:., \n ]+")) eval-expression((skip-chars-forward "[:., \n ]+") nil) call-interactively(eval-expression) recursive-edit() byte-code("ÆÇ !� �\n!ˆ ƒB `|ˆ)Ìcˆeb�ÎÏ \"� ˆ\n@Ñ=ƒN debug(error (error "Invalid ISO C character class")) skip-chars-forward("[:., \n ]+") eval((skip-chars-forward "[:., \n ]+")) eval-expression((skip-chars-forward "[:., \n ]+") nil) call-interactively(eval-expression) The bug produces that error when the line is in the *scratch* buffer with the English language environment as reported by (describe-language-environment nil) In a Texinfo mode buffer, with the same English language environment, a shorter error message is produced: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid ISO C character class") skip-chars-forward("[:., \n ]+") eval((skip-chars-forward "[:., \n ]+")) eval-expression((skip-chars-forward "[:., \n ]+") nil) call-interactively(eval-expression) `texinfo-all-menus-update' succeeds if you first remove all the menus from the Texinfo file that you are updating. -- Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises As I slowly update it, bob@rattlesnake.com I rewrite a "What's New" segment for http://www.rattlesnake.com