From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: andrew dasys <adasys@objectivity.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tables and Latex "Wrong-number-of-arguments" error
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:58:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8399.1236650329@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from andrew dasys <adasys@objectivity.ca> of "Mon\, 09 Mar 2009 19\:23\:35 EDT." <8aca08a00903091623o63eb296cjb9ff20338f6054d5@mail.gmail.com>
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andrew dasys <adasys@objectivity.ca> wrote:
> Nick,
> thank you for looking at this.
>
> I am running Emacs 21.4.1 Nothing bleeding edge here.
>
> The help for split-string looks reasonable (compiled Lisp comes from "subr" ....) (complete output attached)
>
...
> split-string is a compiled Lisp function in `subr'.
> (split-string STRING &optional SEPARATORS)
>
> Splits STRING into substrings where there are matches for SEPARATORS.
> Each match for SEPARATORS is a splitting point.
> The substrings between the splitting points are made into a list
> which is returned.
> If SEPARATORS is absent, it defaults to "[ \f\t\n\r\v]+".
>
> If there is match for SEPARATORS at the beginning of STRING, we do not
> include a null substring for that. Likewise, if there is a match
> at the end of STRING, we don't include a null substring for that.
>
> Modifies the match data; use `save-match-data' if necessary.
I think that explains it: split-string takes one mandatory and two
optional arguments (separator regexp and an omit-nulls boolean) in
emacs-22/23; but only *one* optional argument in emacs-21 (the separator
arg). The org latex-exporting code calls it with two optional arguments
and that makes the emacs-21 implementation of split-string blow up.
I just did an experiment: in my emacs-23, I called split-string
with one mandatory and *three* more arguments:
(split-string "foo
bar
baz" "\n" t t)
and I got
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments #[(string &optional separators omit-nulls) "\bƒ\b
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-10 1:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-04 18:48 Tables and Latex "Wrong-number-of-arguments" error andrew dasys
2009-03-05 14:28 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-09 20:15 ` andrew dasys
2009-03-09 22:22 ` Nick Dokos
2009-03-09 22:42 ` latex exporting strangeness [was: Re: Tables and Latex "Wrong-number-of-arguments" error] Nick Dokos
2009-03-09 23:38 ` andrew dasys
2009-03-10 2:01 ` Nick Dokos
2009-03-09 23:23 ` Tables and Latex "Wrong-number-of-arguments" error andrew dasys
2009-03-10 1:58 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2009-03-10 2:12 ` Nick Dokos
2009-03-10 5:36 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-10 13:12 ` andrew dasys
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