bug#19714: reftex under Xemacs 21.5.33 Mule

[Tassilo Horn]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-regexp "Invalid regular expression")
>>   
>> re-search-forward("\\(?:\\\\label{\\(?1:[^}]*\\)}\\|\\[[^]]*\\<label[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*{?\\(?1:[^],}]+\\)}?\\)\\|\\(^\\)[
>>   
>> ]*\\\\\\(begin{SaveListing}\\|part\\|chapter\\|section\\|subsection\\|subsubsection\\|paragraph\\|subparagraph\\|addchap\\|addsec\\)\\*?\\(\\[[^]]*\\]\\)?[[{
>>   \n\\]\\|\\(^\\)[   ]*\\\\\\(include\\|input\\|subfile\\)[{
>>   ]+\\([^}   \n]+\\)\\|\\(^\\)[
>>   
>> ]*\\(\\\\appendix\\)\\|\\(\\\\glossary\\|\\\\index\\|\\\\nomenclature\\)[[{]"
>>   nil t)
>
> It would be my guess that
>
> ‘\(?NUM: … \)’
>      is the "explicitly numbered group" construct.  Normal groups get
>      their number implicitly, based on their position, which can be
>      inconvenient.  This construct allows you to force a particular
>      group number.  There is no particular restriction on the numbering,
>      e.g., you can have several groups with the same number in which
>      case the last one to match (i.e., the rightmost match) will win.
>      Implicitly numbered groups always get the smallest integer larger
>      than the one of any previous group.
>
> is the culprit here.  At least in the current XEmacs manual
> <URL:http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/lispref_45.html#SEC599>
> I can find nothing of the sort.

Yes, that's it.  Unfortunately, I use that on purpose in
`reftex-label-regexps' which is a customizable list of regexps which
gets `regexp-opt'ed and starts `reftex-everything-regexp'.  By default,
it has one entry matching \label{...} and one matching keyval
label={...} arguments.

RefTeX relies on the first group in `reftex-everything-regexp' capturing
the label name (see reftex-parse.el:242).  Without the explicitly
numbered groups, the regex for \label{...} would be group 1, but the
regex for label={...} would already be two.

I don't see an easy fix here on my side.  So basically you have two
options:

  1. implement explicitly numbered groups in XEmacs (they are really
     useful in many cases)

  2. remove `reftex-label-regexps' and stick to matching only
     \label{...} labels without being able to match other things that
     also produce labels

     (or even simpler: remove the "?1" from the first regexp in
     `reftex-label-regexps' and delete the second regexp.  Also make it
     to a `defconst' to indicate that nobody should touch it.)

Bye,
Tassilo