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PascalVKooten
PascalVKooten

Reputation: 21451

Marker does not point anywhere from align-regexp (Emacs)

I am having trouble with the marker in calling an align-regexp. Somehow this doesn't work and gives the error "Marker does not point anywhere".

The idea of the function is that it searches for a new paragraph, marks it and then performs the align-regexp on it. Why doesn't it work?

(defun cleanR-align-smallerthan-dash ()
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (while (search-forward-regexp "[\n][\n]" nil t) ; confirmed to work
      (mark-paragraph)                            ; the error is probably in here
      (align-regexp (region-beginning) (region-end) "<-"))))

Upvotes: 1

Views: 589

Answers (2)

event_jr
event_jr

Reputation: 17707

The regexp you passed is not what align-regexp is expecting.

See my answer here.

Upvotes: 3

Stefan
Stefan

Reputation: 28541

My guess is that you're hitting a bug, and that this bug was fixed in Emacs's trunk a while ago.

Upvotes: 0

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