From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: elisp search-forward problem - function stops on search failed error
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:48:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5166B123.2020807@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1365679474576-283469.post@n5.nabble.com>
Am 11.04.2013 13:24, schrieb acomber:
> 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: " "
>
...
(defun do-cols ()
"convert tab char to WHATEVER"
(interactive "*")
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (search-forward "\t" nil t)
(replace-match "BlahBlub")))
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2013-04-11 11:24 elisp search-forward problem - function stops on search failed error acomber
2013-04-11 12:35 ` Tassilo Horn
2013-04-11 12:48 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
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