* Macro aborts even though regexp instance exists - Serious Bug
@ 2012-10-22 20:40 Swami Tota Ram Shankar
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From: Swami Tota Ram Shankar @ 2012-10-22 20:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
Hi emacs users,
I write a simple macro which works, however, it fails in a particular
case.
C-s
M-r
to get into isearch-forward-regexp
and give a regexp like
ONE\|TWO
It works for every TWO and ONE as long as there is a ONE ahead of TWO.
In the last instance, no ONE exists after TWO and it fails.
\| <=> OR or disjunction.
Any solutions?
This is such a fundamental issue that I think its a bug. When the C-s
M-r is used outside the macro definition, the cursor gladly returns
to the original position when OR is entered and proceeds forward from
there, but perhaps, the macro aborts.
I guess, this can lead to a lot of confusion and time wastage, if the
user is unaware of this and most likely to neglect it because its
contrary to normal usage.
I include more newsgroups because of the seriousness of this bug.
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