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From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: 19208@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:00:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3wn5kgw.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> (raw)


Occurs in Emacs 24.3 and trunk

Running this code in *scratch* buffer

(progn
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (re-search-forward "This")
  (replace-match "That" nil nil nil))

Now undo and run this code

(progn
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (re-search-forward "This")
  (replace-match "That" nil nil nil 1))

This causes the following error.

progn: Args out of range: -1, -1


The error is caused because I have asked for a subexp that doesn't exist in
the regexp. A programmer error for sure, but the Args out of range error seems
rather unfriendly to me, especially as I have no idea where the -1, or
-1 has come from.

"Attempt to replace regexp subexpression that doesn't exist", for
example, would be nicer.







             reply	other threads:[~2014-11-28 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-28 17:00 Phillip Lord [this message]
2019-08-03 14:01 ` bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-03 20:22 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-03 20:31   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-03 20:50     ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-04  9:09       ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-03 23:59     ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-04  9:02       ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-04 14:12         ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-04 15:13           ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-04 17:41             ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-04 18:14               ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-05  2:25           ` Richard Stallman
2019-08-04 11:47       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-04  9:18   ` Andreas Schwab

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