Re: insert gives args out of range

[Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>]

On Saturday, August 17th, 2024 at 9:29 AM, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:32:49 +0000 Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday, August 17th, 2024 at 3:34 AM, Stephen Berman
> > stephen.berman@gmx.net wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:21:12 +0000 Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > > I have solved the problem by adding (forward-line 1) after setting blank-lines
> > > > 
> > > > (while (and (< blank-lines 2)
> > > > (re-search-forward "^\\s-*$" nil t))
> > > > (setq blank-lines (1+ blank-lines))
> > > > ;; Move point forward to avoid re-matching the same blank line
> > > > (forward-line 1))
> > > > 
> > > > Could this fail on some circumstances ?
> > > 
> > > Depends on what you consider failure: with the buffer "test" I gave as
> > > an example above, output-buffer contains not just two but three empty
> > > lines between the two defuns, and not just one but two empty lines at
> > > the end; is that what you want?
> > > 
> > > Steve Berman
> > 
> > By failure, I mean this: Could Emacs fire an error buffer based on some unforeseen
> > structure of the file when re-search-forward executes ?
> 
> 
> Yes. Steve Berman

Perhaps you can help me write an improved, more robust implementation, if the problem is
evident.