From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Numbered regexps throw invalid regex error
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:29:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F211CF8.3080608@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20120126T092647-897@post.gmane.org>
Am 26.01.2012 09:30, schrieb Tom:
> Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler<at> easy-emacs.de> writes:
>>>
>>> There is no mention of an automatic assignment. It says the last one
>>> will win, so assigning a number which is already used for
>>> a previous group should work.
>>>
>>
>> would consider it a bug then - at least a docu bug
>>
>
> I don't think it's a doc bug. The whole point of the feature is that
> you can assign constant numbers to groups, so they don't change if you
> add/remove parens.
>
> If it can suddenly throw a regexp error, just because you've added
> a paren around an other paren then it pretty much defeats the
> prupose of the feature.
>
>
>
>
Probably. OTOH one may arg the error message helps counting.
Could think of a static variant --as is-- as it provides some security.
OTOH one may think at dynamic environments which can't be handled that way.
Anyway in favor of a bug report.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-26 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-25 10:17 Numbered regexps throw invalid regex error Tom
2012-01-25 17:21 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-01-25 17:51 ` Tom
2012-01-25 20:02 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-01-25 20:14 ` Tom
2012-01-25 20:37 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-01-26 8:30 ` Tom
2012-01-26 9:29 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2012-01-26 11:52 ` Tim Landscheidt
2012-01-26 14:36 ` Tom
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