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Re: `align-regexp' fails in Lisp code
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Michael Heerdegen |
Subject: |
Re: `align-regexp' fails in Lisp code |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:26:15 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com> writes:
> Two positions make a region, hence the call:
>
> (align-regexp (point-min) (point-max) " hides ")
>
> is correct.
>
> The problem is that - I had to look into Lisp code to understand - the
> regexp that you enter in the mini-buffer is not the regexp that
> align-regexp' receives, because of a conversion applied by the
> interactive' form inside the command. Hence I agree with you - but
> for a different reason - that the documentation should say how the
> command could be called from Lisp.
Interesting. Do you also understand why
(align-regexp (point-min) (point-max) " hides ")
is illegitimate? After having read the doc, I don't understand why this
call must lead to an error.
Regards,
Michael.
Re: `align-regexp' fails in Lisp code, Le Wang, 2013/07/09
Re: `align-regexp' fails in Lisp code, Jambunathan K, 2013/07/12