Re: insert gives args out of range

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:32:49 +0000 Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, August 17th, 2024 at 3:34 AM, Stephen Berman
> <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:21:12 +0000 Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
[...]
>> > I have solved the problem by adding (forward-line 1) after setting blank-lines
>> >
>> > (while (and (< blank-lines 2)
>> > (re-search-forward "^\\s-*$" nil t))
>> > (setq blank-lines (1+ blank-lines))
>> > ;; Move point forward to avoid re-matching the same blank line
>> > (forward-line 1))
>> >
>> > Could this fail on some circumstances ?
>>
>>
>> Depends on what you consider failure: with the buffer "test" I gave as
>> an example above, output-buffer contains not just two but three empty
>> lines between the two defuns, and not just one but two empty lines at
>> the end; is that what you want?
>>
>> Steve Berman
>
> By failure, I mean this: Could Emacs fire an error buffer based on some unforeseen
> structure of the file when re-search-forward executes ?

Yes.

Steve Berman