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RE: save-excursion not working - despite NO-ERROR in search-forward-rege
From: |
Doug Lewan |
Subject: |
RE: save-excursion not working - despite NO-ERROR in search-forward-regexp |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:53:05 +0000 |
Gnuist,
I think the problem is your use of (end-of-buffer) which is a function of
motion, not location. It's *info* documentation also has this note: `*Warning:*
Don't use this function in Lisp programs!'.
Try using (point-max) instead.
I hope this helps.
,Doug
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of gnuist007@hotmail.com
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> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: save-excursion not working - despite NO-ERROR in search-
> forward-regexp
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am trying to search some regular expressions in a file and then to
> do some manipulations represented for now by a message only. I want to
> go till the eob and then dont want to hit error, so I have a t for NO-
> ERROR. However, I also want the cursor ie point to return where I
> started from, ie did C-x C-e, but I see that the cursor gets stuck
> somewhere else, a little above the eob, even though its wrapped in
> save-excursion. This is driving me crazy so please help me.
>
> (save-excursion
> (while
> (search-forward-regexp (regexp-quote "does nott existt inn this
> file") (end-of-buffer) t)
> (message "first")
> ))
>
> If you have a better suggestion, I shall be glad to have it, but I
> also want someone to show a fix to the one I have posted.
>
> gnuist
>
>