Re: `align-regexp' fails in Lisp code

[Michael Heerdegen]

Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com> writes:

> > 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.

The doc is just incomplete, so I filed a bug report.  It's bug 14857
now.


Regards,

Michael.