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Re: looping through re-seach-forward gives error
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Michael Heerdegen |
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Re: looping through re-seach-forward gives error |
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Sun, 20 Mar 2016 23:21:15 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> > (defun find-start-of-sexp ()
> > (re-search-forward "(" (point-max) t)
> > (backward-char)
> > (point-marker))
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> What happens if (re-search-forward "(" (point-max) t) returns nil?
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> > (defun find-end-of-sexp ()
> > (forward-sexp)
> > (point-marker))
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> What happens if (forward-sexp) has a problem?
Also: what happens when there are prompts which are directly followed by
another prompt?
I suggest to use Edebug to see what's going on. Just instrument your
stuff (C-u C-M-x), start your program, and hit SPC, SPC, ... to see
what's going on.
Michael.