bug#36328: 26.2; Args out of range on search-and-replace of *.cc file

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello again, Jayden.

On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 07:25:30 -0700, Jayden Navarro wrote:
> Hello Alan,

> Thank you for your response. Apologies for the ambiguous steps. Please find
> more detailed information below:

Thanks!

> Here are the steps:

> 1. Open a file in c++-mode (e.g. emacs -Q test.cc).

> 2. Add 100 lines of some string (e.g. the word "bar" on every line for 100
> lines, no quotes in the actual file):

> bar
> bar
> bar
> bar
> ...
> bar

> 3. Add a unique string to line 101 (e.g. the word "foo", no quotes in the
> actual file).

> bar
> bar
> bar
> bar
> ...
> bar
> foo
> <INCLUDE NEWLINE AT END OF FILE>

> 4. Close Emacs

> 5. Open up the file again: emacs -Q test.cc

> 6. Replace the unique string with some other string: M-x query-replace
> <RET> foo <RET> bar <RET>

Are you _sure_ that's what you typed?  ;-)

> 7. You should hit: Args out of range: #<buffer test.cc>, 0, 1

> Here's the backtrace when using debug-on-error:

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range #<buffer test.cc> 0 1)
>   buffer-substring-no-properties(0 1)  <==============================
>   perform-replace("foo" "a" t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil)
>   query-replace("foo" "a" nil nil nil nil nil)
>   funcall-interactively(query-replace "foo" "a" nil nil nil nil nil)
>   call-interactively(query-replace nil nil)
>   command-execute(query-replace)

There, it looks like you are trying to replace "foo" by "a".  I'm
interested in the (invalid) arguments 0, 1 passed to
buffer-substring-no-properties.  I suspect that these are derived from
the "match-data" for a string, in particular for the string "a".

Could you please repeat the bug scenario, but this time try to replace
"foo" by "bar".  I predict you will then get the error message

    (args-out-of-range #<buffer test.cc> 0 3)

since the replacement string will then be 3 characters long.

If that does indeed happen, it would be a very strong clue as to the
underlying bug.  Please try it as above, and post the backtrace here.
Thanks!

[ .... ]

> Here's the list of packages I have installed under $HOME/.emacs.d/elpa:

> avy-0.3.0
> company-20181105.2312
> company-lean-20171102.1454
> dash-20180910.1856
> dash-functional-20180107.1618
> epl-20180205.2049
> f-20180106.922
> flycheck-20181127.1510
> gnupg
> go-mode-1.3.1
> haskell-mode-13.16
> lean-mode-20180906.1645
> pkg-info-20150517.1143
> rust-mode-20181008.1628
> s-20180406.808

I think, I hope very strongly, that the -Q in emacs -Q will prevent any
packages being loaded.  Otherwise we have a problem in the Emacs core.

> Best,
> Jayden

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).