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: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:26:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87zjtsy66w.fsf@web.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373588803 22702 80.91.229.3 (12 Jul 2013 00:26:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:26:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 12 02:26:44 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 1UxRC6-0001ao-Va for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:26:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49607 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UxRC6-0006Qv-Hf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 20:26:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40327) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UxRBw-0006Qm-VT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 20:26:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UxRBv-0002nS-Rz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 20:26:32 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59982) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UxRBv-0002n5-LL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 20:26:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UxRBt-0001QH-0g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:26:29 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-2-201-200-225.web.vodafone.de ([2.201.200.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:26:29 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-2-201-200-225.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:26:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-2-201-200-225.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pMOSgpIPwGOq7oLVJS1MtLIKD5c= 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:92069 Archived-At: Raffaele Ricciardi writes: > Two positions make a region, hence the call: > > (align-regexp (point-min) (point-max) " hides ") > > is correct. > > The problem is that - I had to look into Lisp code to understand - the > regexp that you enter in the mini-buffer is not the regexp that > align-regexp' receives, because of a conversion applied by the > interactive' form inside the command. Hence I agree with you - but > for a different reason - that the documentation should say how the > command could be called from Lisp. 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. Regards, Michael.