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* (goto-char ...) error
@ 2011-02-22 16:47 ken
  2011-02-22 17:31 ` Deniz Dogan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: ken @ 2011-02-22 16:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Performing one search, I save the result with

(setq ptname (re-search-forward ...))

Then I want to back up one character and perform another search, so I do

(goto-char (- ptname 1))

But this pukes an error.  What's unkosher here?


tnx.



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