From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: replace-regexp Date: Sat, 08 May 2021 02:02:25 +0200 Message-ID: <877dkaytwu.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87tunf1mz5.fsf@zoho.eu> <87v97v6mxg.fsf@gnu.org> <87wnsaz9df.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20107"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:JHpyqUSskzdoMPFnI2FGZvQsUqo= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 08 02:03:15 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lfAR8-00056v-0B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 02:03:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37288 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfAR6-00036L-94 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 07 May 2021 20:03:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56484) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfAQY-000354-Ik for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 May 2021 20:02:38 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:53090) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfAQV-0004Lu-RK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 May 2021 20:02:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lfAQS-0004Qz-Ro for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 02:02:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129555 Archived-At: >>> so I wrote this and it does the job but reports the error >>> "while: Invalid search bound (wrong side of point)" >>> >>> (defun md-latex (beg end) >>> (interactive "r") >>> (save-excursion >>> (goto-char beg) >>> (while (re-search-forward "_\\(.*\\)_" end t) >>> (replace-match "\\\\textit{\\1}") ))) >> >> I think you didn't call your command interactively but >> through code like (md-latex 170 82) where the BEG was >> larger than END. When being called interactively the "r" >> spec makes sure that BEG is always the smaller one, no >> matter if point is before mark or the other way round. > > Nope, I called it with M-x. Tried again now, still the same > error. It works but I get the error. > > Maybe it has something to do with the replacement being > longer than the original string? That's it, I think, as this doesn't give me the error: (defun md-latex-reduce (beg end) (interactive "r") (save-excursion (goto-char beg) (while (re-search-forward "_\\(.*\\)_" end t) (replace-match "\\1") ))) (Now the function doesn't make any sense, so this is just to try my theory...) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal