(match-end 0) returns 1 instead of the actual position

(match-end 0) returns 1 instead of the actual position

[Yuan Fu]

Hi,

This doesn’t happen with vanilla Emacs, but I couldn’t tell which part of my config is causing it. Basically if I run

(looking-at "xxx")
(match-end 0)

It returns 1 instead of the end of xxx after point.

Is there any user option that would affect this that I’m not aware of?

I tried bisecting but the issue doesn’t always reproduce. (It reproduce reliably when I enable all configuration, but not when I comment out parts of the config…)

Thanks,
Yuan

Re: (match-end 0) returns 1 instead of the actual position

[Emanuel Berg]

Yuan Fu wrote:

> This doesn’t happen with vanilla Emacs, but I couldn’t tell
> which part of my config is causing it. Basically if I run
>
> (looking-at "xxx")
> (match-end 0)
>
> It returns 1 instead of the end of xxx after point.
>
> Is there any user option that would affect this that I’m not aware of?
>
> I tried bisecting but the issue doesn’t always reproduce.
> (It reproduce reliably when I enable all configuration, but
> not when I comment out parts of the config ...)

... we'll consider this a "slip", eh :)

Do the binary search algorithm of your code, Google that if
you don't know what it refers to in this contex, when you
understand it you'll see that you can pinpoint the bug or
misconfiguration very easily and quickly.

You can then tell us what it was, also!

-- 
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Re: (match-end 0) returns 1 instead of the actual position

[Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

> This doesn’t happen with vanilla Emacs, but I couldn’t tell which part of my
> config is causing it. Basically if I run
>
> (looking-at "xxx")
> (match-end 0)

Define "run".

These are 2 expressions and the result will depend on how you combine
them (more specifically it depends on what code might be run in-between).

> It returns 1 instead of the end of xxx after point.

Any chance you used `C-x C-e` or `M-C-x` twice, meaning that a whole lot
of things like timers, `post-command-hook`s and whatnot can/will run
between the two?


        Stefan

Re: (match-end 0) returns 1 instead of the actual position

[Yuan Fu]

> On Dec 22, 2022, at 4:04 PM, Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> This doesn’t happen with vanilla Emacs, but I couldn’t tell which part of my
>> config is causing it. Basically if I run
>> 
>> (looking-at "xxx")
>> (match-end 0)
> 
> Define "run".
> 
> These are 2 expressions and the result will depend on how you combine
> them (more specifically it depends on what code might be run in-between).
> 
>> It returns 1 instead of the end of xxx after point.
> 
> Any chance you used `C-x C-e` or `M-C-x` twice, meaning that a whole lot
> of things like timers, `post-command-hook`s and whatnot can/will run
> between the two?

Ah that’s exactly it, I used M-; twice. That’s why I can’t bisect out anything meaningful. Thanks!

Yuan

Re: (match-end 0) returns 1 instead of the actual position

[Yuan Fu]

> On Dec 22, 2022, at 3:24 PM, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:
> 
> Yuan Fu wrote:
> 
>> This doesn’t happen with vanilla Emacs, but I couldn’t tell
>> which part of my config is causing it. Basically if I run
>> 
>> (looking-at "xxx")
>> (match-end 0)
>> 
>> It returns 1 instead of the end of xxx after point.
>> 
>> Is there any user option that would affect this that I’m not aware of?
>> 
>> I tried bisecting but the issue doesn’t always reproduce.
>> (It reproduce reliably when I enable all configuration, but
>> not when I comment out parts of the config ...)
> 
> ... we'll consider this a "slip", eh :)
> 
> Do the binary search algorithm of your code, Google that if
> you don't know what it refers to in this contex, when you
> understand it you'll see that you can pinpoint the bug or
> misconfiguration very easily and quickly.
> 
> You can then tell us what it was, also!

As Stefan pointed it out, it was my slip in how I ran the test. I did try bisecting but that didn’t turn up anything because I ran the code in the wrong way.

Yuan