andrew dasys <ada...@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) " _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
