From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: return of replace-match Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:16:49 +0100 Message-ID: <87lhwq6ljy.fsf@web.de> References: <87txbe58k7.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393946249 2589 80.91.229.3 (4 Mar 2014 15:17:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 15:17:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 04 16:17:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WKr67-0008SN-Dc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:17:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45779 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKr63-0001HQ-TX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:17:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38425) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKr5l-00015b-Oc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:17:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKr5e-0006Ra-W5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:17:13 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKr5e-0006RT-P6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:17:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WKr5d-00083t-9U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:17:05 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-90-187-194-131.web.vodafone.de ([90.187.194.131]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:17:05 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-187-194-131.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:17:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-187-194-131.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5jWrQiaQKJVfMBKEw4A7qFIPneY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96254 Archived-At: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) writes: > (progn > (re-search-forward "bob") > (replace-match "fred")) > > bob > > point gets moved to the end of "bob" (now "fred") but "nil" is returned. > Am I doing something wrong? I think the manual is just lying. If nobody disagrees, please make a bug report. Regards, Michael.