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From: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
To: gebser@mousecar.com
Cc: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: error in replace-match: "args out of range"
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 23:44:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikqeOrW=U=CUnAeHV8bOM=UGSdUug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D9FE70A.8010806@mousecar.com>

On 4/8/11, ken <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:
> On 04/07/2011 07:25 PM Tim X wrote:
>> This was my point of warning. It is quite possible to have
>> regexps where sub expressions are not found, but the overall regexp
>> succeeds.
>
> I'm having a hard time with that concept.  Is there a small bit of
> example code you could show it with?

"I am\\( not\\)? a fish."

-PJ



  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-09  6:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3.1301227401.14102.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-28 15:38 ` error in replace-match: "args out of range" Stefan Monnier
2011-03-28 18:50   ` ken
2011-03-28 20:32     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-03 22:02       ` ken
2011-04-03 23:19         ` PJ Weisberg
2011-04-04 16:13           ` ken
     [not found]           ` <mailman.1.1301933608.12491.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-04 22:21             ` Tim X
2011-04-07 16:29               ` ken
     [not found]               ` <mailman.0.1302193756.25199.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-07 23:25                 ` Tim X
2011-04-09  4:56                   ` ken
2011-04-09  6:44                     ` PJ Weisberg [this message]
2011-04-09 12:35                       ` ken
     [not found]                       ` <mailman.2.1302352549.29796.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-09 12:57                         ` David Kastrup
2011-04-09 20:04                           ` PJ Weisberg
2011-04-09 21:25                             ` Perry Smith
2011-04-05  1:56             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-06  3:39               ` error in replace-match: "args out of range" [SOLVED] ken
2011-04-07 14:00                 ` ken
2011-04-07 19:09                   ` PJ Weisberg
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.14.1302203359.27822.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-24  1:20                     ` David Combs
2011-04-24  5:21                       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-09  1:32                         ` David Combs
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.9.1302184849.3726.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-10  2:25                   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-27 12:02 error in replace-match: "args out of range" ken
2011-03-27 18:25 ` ken
     [not found] ` <mailman.3.1301250397.12231.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-27 19:07   ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-03-27 20:12     ` ken

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