Re: texinfo-start-menu-description regex problem

[Andreas Schwab]

Michael Scholz <scholz-micha@gmx.de> writes:

|> The function texinfo-start-menu-description (C-c C-c C-d) doesn't work
|> correctly in texinfo-mode. I think there is a regex mistake in this
|> function. With the change listed below it works properly now.
|> 
|> I'm using GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i686-lerche-freebsd3.3, X toolkit, Xaw3d
|> scroll bars). Debugging message is:
|> 
|> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-regexp "Unmatched ) or \\)")
|>   re-search-forward("^@node[         ]+Blabla.*\n\\(\\(\\(^@c 
\\|^@comment\\).*\n\\)\\|\\(^@ifinfo[ ]*\n\\)\\|\\(^@ifnottex[ ]*\n\\)\\)?\\)?" 
nil t)
|> * call-interactively(texinfo-start-menu-description)
|> 
|> *** /usr/local/share/emacs/21.1/lisp/textmodes/texnfo-upd.el.orig
|> --- /usr/local/share/emacs/21.1/lisp/textmodes/texnfo-upd.el
|> ***************
|> *** 672,678 ****
|>          "\\(^@ifinfo[ ]*\n\\)"             ; ifinfo line, if any
|>               "\\|"                              ; or
|>               "\\(^@ifnottex[ ]*\n\\)"           ; ifnottex line, if any
|> !             "\\)?"                             ; end of expression
|>          "\\)?")
|>         nil t)
|>        (progn
|> --- 672,678 ----
|>          "\\(^@ifinfo[ ]*\n\\)"             ; ifinfo line, if any
|>               "\\|"                              ; or
|>               "\\(^@ifnottex[ ]*\n\\)"           ; ifnottex line, if any
|> ! ;            "\\)?"                             ; end of expression
|>          "\\)?")
|>         nil t)
|>        (progn

Thanks for your report.  I'm forwarding it to the texinfo bug list.

Andreas.

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