From: MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com>
To: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why do replace commands sometimes not work?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 23:01:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBEF607.8060209@arlsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5O-dnbLCNdm5bCPSnZ2dnUVZ5rmdnZ2d@giganews.com>
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On 5/24/2012 10:41 PM, B. T. Raven wrote:
> I can't reproduce that misbehavior on w32 ver 23.1
> Both in *scratch* (lisp mode) and a junk file in text mode I get:
>
> John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt
> " John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt"
> " John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt"
> John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt
> John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt
>
> where the second and third lines were originally camel-case in quotes.
> I did assign the macro to a keychord with C-xC-kb
>
> Ed
I'm not surprised that you can't reproduce it. It's so unpredictable
that it reminds me of an assembly language bug I diagnosed many years
ago where the code turned out to be making a critical decision based on
data it fetched from an uninitialized memory location. In the case of
this bug, the state of memory could depend on every keystroke I've typed
since I started Emacs, the contents of every file it's opened, etc.
The example I gave was to illustrate the sort of problem I'm running
into, to see if anyone else has encountered the same problem. I'd be
thrilled if I could come up with a reproducible example, but I've had no
luck on that front so far.
Mark
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