Re: elisp search-forward problem - function stops on search failed error

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 11.04.2013 13:24, schrieb acomber:
> I wrote a function to replace tab characters with a string as in:
>
> (defun do-cols ()
>    "convert tab char to html td delim"
>    (interactive)
>    (goto-char (point-min))
>       (while (search-forward "\t")
>          (insert "
> ")
>       )
> )
>
> which works fine but on finishing I see in the command window: Search
> failed: "    "

...
(defun do-cols ()
  "convert tab char to WHATEVER"
  (interactive "*")
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (search-forward "\t" nil t)
    (replace-match "BlahBlub")))