From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: error in replace-match: "args out of range" Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:25:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4D8F8123.6050904@mousecar.com> References: <4D8F2752.2070604@mousecar.com> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301250429 23893 80.91.229.12 (27 Mar 2011 18:27:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:27:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: GNU Emacs List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 27 20:27:03 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3ug0-0008Tj-Vo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:27:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37569 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q3ug0-000851-Bg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:27:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35671 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q3ufa-00084j-PK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:26:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3ufZ-0003Kh-OL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.194]:57557) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3ufZ-0003KV-IQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:26:33 -0400 Original-Received: from dellap.mousecar.net (dsl093-011-016.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.16]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MC4Ay-1QCkNC2Db6-009WLE; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:26:32 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20101213) In-Reply-To: <4D8F2752.2070604@mousecar.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=5AD091E7 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:9QZTFR2pMHgMt4xlJlKROJmoVpy6rqv59m3dNo+Tar2 2EuoblbpOkgNFa7w79C0/sdICy0dPq+gbSeiC6t7mn5Jwgc1Tj iw6prGYfgBnOl5QnZjEm2HgVd9M0yIXnWXa26CtdVzXhOtyxXf PHaoAIT6OMP11IYfFNs0BuF0NgKTQ3DjgY6klRMrU45jsS6GFF udBfu0FrCvtbkxfxOyU4gpshOSJOhr+ffILN6nkgrw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.208.4.194 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80476 Archived-At: On 03/27/2011 08:02 AM ken wrote: > replace-match works fine in a couple instances in one function, but this > instance (in the same function) it doesn-- 't. I get the error msg below > about the arguments being out of range. I'm guessing the problem is > with the 4th arg, the one beginning: #(" "(fontified ..." cruft in it... is that confusing replace-match...? Or > might I have just the totally wrong type arg there? > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range -1 -1) > replace-match("Text for Heading" t nil #(" name=\"Testing-TOC-Header\">" 0 1 (fontified t face > font-lock-function-name-face) 1 2 (fontified t face html-tag-face) 2 3 > (fontified t) 3 8 (fontified t face font-lock-variable-name-face) 8 9 > (fontified t face font-lock-string-face) 9 27 (fontified t face > font-lock-string-face) 27 28 (fontified t face font-lock-string-face) 28 > 29 (fontified t face font-lock-function-name-face) 29 30 (fontified t > face font-lock-function-name-face) 30 32 (fontified t face > html-tag-face) 32 33 (fontified t face font-lock-function-name-face)) 4) > eval((replace-match head-text-nested t nil head-text 4)) > > Still groping for a resolution.... Here's something that might be relevant. The immediately preceding re-search-forward was successful. However, the subexpression which matched (#4) is a null string, i.e., "". So the question: Will replace-match replace an empty string with specified text...? in effect *inserting* text at the location of the specified (albeit nil) subexpression? -- Anything is easy if you know how to do it.