Re: `align-regexp' fails in Lisp code

[Raffaele Ricciardi]

On 12/07/13 02:26, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, the doc doesn't touch the issue.  If you call `align-regexp' 
with the regexp that you would have typed in the mini-buffer, then you 
won't be calling `align-regexp' with the regexp that it expects, because 
a regexp typed in the mini-buffer would have been converted into 
something else.