From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: `align-regexp' fails in Lisp code Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 01:16:14 +0200 Message-ID: <87k3kve5dt.fsf@web.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373671002 15186 80.91.229.3 (12 Jul 2013 23:16:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 23:16:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 13 01:16:42 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UxmZu-0000Wk-97 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jul 2013 01:16:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47068 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UxmZt-0002kM-Mq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:16:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43821) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UxmZj-0002kH-1h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:16:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UxmZh-0003tj-TQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:16:30 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49709) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UxmZh-0003tI-Mn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:16:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UxmZf-0000Nj-4s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jul 2013 01:16:27 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-187-105-124.web.vodafone.de ([90.187.105.124]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2013 01:16:27 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-187-105-124.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2013 01:16:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-187-105-124.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nG+H+QvRoi+DwuZQjKvyJFU10L8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92095 Archived-At: Raffaele Ricciardi 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.