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I have been trying to use visual-regexp-steroids without luck (a thread on this package can be found here)

When I do vr/replace (C-c p), I get a prompt in the minibuffer. I can enter regexps and Emacs shows interactively every match in the buffer. So far so good.

The problem comes when I click RET and then enter another string (the one I want to replace my matches with). If I now do RET (to do the actual replacements), I get the following message in the mini-buffer:

Args out of range #<killed buffer>, 0, 0

Why? How can I debug the problem and get it to work?

  • Update: I have opened an issue in the GitHub repository here
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  • How is this related to multiple cursors? To debug the error, do M-x toggle-debug-on-error and then recreate the error. You can then paste the generated backtrace info in your question above to help people further assist you.
    – Kaushal Modi
    Sep 9, 2015 at 12:46
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    It doesn't sound like you're doing anything wrong. I think I'd file an issue on github
    – Malabarba
    Sep 9, 2015 at 12:49
  • You are right @kaushalmodi This specific vr command is not about multiple-cursors. I removed the tag.
    – Amelio Vazquez-Reina
    Sep 9, 2015 at 12:50
  • Sounds like you should file a bug with the maintainer (and then delete this question).
    – Drew
    Sep 9, 2015 at 13:37

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The problem was that my shell init file (.zshenv in my case, since I am using zsh) was printing one line to stdout every time I logged in, and this was confusing the parsing. Once I removed the echo line, everything worked well.

I am leaving this as an answer here in case anyone else runs into the same problem.

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