From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: error in replace-match: "args out of range"
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:02:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D98EE5B.4080108@mousecar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd3lbkmws.fsf-monnier+INBOX@gnu.org>
On 03/28/2011 04:32 PM Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Now I'm trying to understand what you're saying in your last sentence
>> above. Are you saying that another search invoked by emacs and outside
>> of my code could alter the values of subexpressions of my last search?
>
> I'm just saying that
>
> M-: (some-regexp-search) RET
> M-: (replace-match ...) RET
>
> won't always do what you want, because a whole lot of code will run
> between the two.
>
>
> Stefan
Hmm. I'm hearing "this is faith-based functionality." Does it have to
do with the fact that all processes running from one emacs session have
the one and the same PID? I recall reading a discussion on this list
(which was largely outside my capacity) multiple years ago about some
problem which 'would be resolved when threading is implemented.' Is
this an issue of that sort?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-03 22:02 UTC|newest]
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[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 [this message]
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
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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