From: acomber <deedexy@gmail.com>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: elisp search-forward problem - function stops on search failed error
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:24:34 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1365679474576-283469.post@n5.nabble.com> (raw)
I wrote a function to replace tab characters with a string as in:
(defun do-cols ()
"convert tab char to html td delim"
(interactive)
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (search-forward "\t")
(insert "
")
)
)
which works fine but on finishing I see in the command window: Search
failed: " "
I think that when this error occurs the lisp function stops running.
That doesn't matter for simple use of do-cols but I want to call the
function from a bigger lisp function and I think if this error occurs
then the calling lisp function stops processing.
so anyway, I changed the function like this:
(defun do-cols ()
"convert tab char to html td delim"
(interactive)
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (search-forward "\t", nil, t)
(insert "
")
)
)
But this function does nothing, get error:
Symbol's value as variable is void: \,
How can I fix do-cols so it actually works and will allow a calling
function to continue processing to next line?
eg I might want:
(defun do-table ()
"convert word table to html"
(interactive)
(goto-char (point-min))
(do-cols)
(do-rows)
)
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2013-04-11 11:24 acomber [this message]
2013-04-11 12:35 ` elisp search-forward problem - function stops on search failed error Tassilo Horn
2013-04-11 12:48 ` Andreas Röhler
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