From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `align-regexp' fails in Lisp code
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 01:16:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3kve5dt.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b4ad6pFra7sU1@mid.individual.net
Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com> writes:
> > Interesting. Do you also understand why
> >
> > (align-regexp (point-min) (point-max) " hides ")
> >
> > is illegitimate? After having read the doc, I don't understand why this
> > call must lead to an error.
>
> Indeed, the doc doesn't touch the issue. If you call `align-regexp'
> with the regexp that you would have typed in the mini-buffer, then you
> won't be calling `align-regexp' with the regexp that it expects,
> because a regexp typed in the mini-buffer would have been converted
> into something else.
The doc is just incomplete, so I filed a bug report. It's bug 14857
now.
Regards,
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-12 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-10 0:11 `align-regexp' fails in Lisp code Raffaele Ricciardi
2013-07-10 2:58 ` Leo Liu
2013-07-10 3:14 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-07-11 11:55 ` andrea crotti
2013-07-11 12:02 ` Nicolas Richard
[not found] ` <mailman.723.1373426169.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-11 23:29 ` Raffaele Ricciardi
2013-07-12 0:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.883.1373588795.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-12 13:04 ` Raffaele Ricciardi
2013-07-12 23:16 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2013-07-10 3:14 ` Le Wang
2013-07-12 13:18 ` Jambunathan K
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