From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: replace-regexp-in-string bug? Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:49:27 +0200 Message-ID: References: <42FDE4CD.6080000@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123941776 10352 80.91.229.2 (13 Aug 2005 14:02:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:02:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 13 16:02:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3wb4-0006rc-5E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:02:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3weK-0008B8-Lx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:06:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E3wZa-0005p3-K2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:01:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E3wZL-0005gb-0x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:01:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3wZK-0005d7-JJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1E3wcy-0000SG-6h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:04:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2AABEF04; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:49:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from sykes.suse.de (sykes.suse.de [10.10.3.53]) by Relay2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD1FEA336; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:49:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Lennart Borgman X-Yow: .. are the STEWED PRUNES still in the HAIR DRYER? In-Reply-To: <42FDE4CD.6080000@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:17:17 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41997 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41997 Lennart Borgman writes: > (replace-regexp-in-string "\s-+" "\s-+" "some space" nil t) "\s-+" is the same as "s-+". You need to use the proper read syntax for strings, see "Syntax for Strings" in the Emacs Lisp manual. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."