From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (match-end 0) returns 1 instead of the actual position
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:24:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k02jauog.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: BFA8D5C6-EC11-4FBA-89E4-0AC0AB603580@gmail.com
Yuan Fu wrote:
> This doesn’t happen with vanilla Emacs, but I couldn’t tell
> which part of my config is causing it. Basically if I run
>
> (looking-at "xxx")
> (match-end 0)
>
> It returns 1 instead of the end of xxx after point.
>
> Is there any user option that would affect this that I’m not aware of?
>
> I tried bisecting but the issue doesn’t always reproduce.
> (It reproduce reliably when I enable all configuration, but
> not when I comment out parts of the config ...)
... we'll consider this a "slip", eh :)
Do the binary search algorithm of your code, Google that if
you don't know what it refers to in this contex, when you
understand it you'll see that you can pinpoint the bug or
misconfiguration very easily and quickly.
You can then tell us what it was, also!
--
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-22 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-22 23:18 (match-end 0) returns 1 instead of the actual position Yuan Fu
2022-12-22 23:24 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-12-24 0:51 ` Yuan Fu
2022-12-23 0:04 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-12-24 0:50 ` Yuan Fu
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