dang vnc misfire - please use the patch attached to this message,
instead of the last one.
-- 
ken
http://myriadicity.net

On Jan 21, 2008 1:49 PM, Ken Manheimer <ken.manheimer@gmail.com> wrote:
> martin, thanks for the details report.  i'm attaching a patch and
> ChangeLog - they includes fixes for some other people's changes, as
> well.  details below, inline.
>
> On Jan 19, 2008 12:24 PM, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:
> > To reproduce with Emacs -Q: Open src/keyboard.c, do M-x allout-mode, and
> > M-x allout-hide-current-leaves.  Gets me:
> >
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
> >   -(nil nil 2)
> >   (max 1 (- allout-recent-prefix-end allout-recent-prefix-beginning allout-header-subtraction))
> >   (setq allout-recent-prefix-end (or (match-end 1) (match-end 2)) allout-recent-prefix-beginning (or (match-beginning 1) (match-beginning 2)) allout-recent-depth (max 1 (- allout-recent-prefix-end allout-recent-prefix-beginning
> > allout-header-subtraction)))
> >   allout-prefix-data()
> > [...]
> >   execute-extended-command(nil)
> >   call-interactively(execute-extended-command)
> >
> > Note that `allout-regexp' is
> >
> > "\\(/\\*_[      ]*[\\.,\\*\\+--=>()\\[{}&!\\?#%\"X@\\$~_\\\\:;\\^/\\*_]\\)\\|\\(/\\*_\\|/\\*_\\)+ ?[^/*_]\\|\f"
> >
> > hence it cannot possibly match _two_ parenthetical subexpressions.
>
> not quite.  that's more clear if you look at the expression as a
> concatenation of a few:
>
> (concat  "\\(/\\*_[
> ]*[\\.,\\*\\+--=>()\\[{}&!\\?#%\"X@\\$~_\\\\:;\\^/\\*_]\\)"
>              "\\|\\(/\\*_\\|/\\*_\\)+ ?[^/*_]"
>              "\\|\f")
>
> the actual problem here is that the match on the third alternative,
> the ^L formfeed, is not itself a top-level alternative in the
> expression.  i've rectified that, and some related things.
>
> along the way i discovered that some error handling code was mangled,
> both in a misguided blanket alteration of expressions that look like
> error functions (for which `error' condition handlers in
> condition-case statements can be mistaken), and in the subsequent
> attempt to repair it, which left inert nonsensical code in its wake.
>
>
> --
> ken
> http://myriadicity.net