Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!lius From: lius@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Scott Liu) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Fatal error (4) from replace-regexp Message-ID: <15447@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 8 May 88 14:26:32 GMT Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: lius@beach.cis.ufl.edu () Organization: UF CIS Department Lines: 22 Emacs always gave me the following message when I tried to simulate the function "tr - translate characters". Error message from emacs: Fatal error (4).Illegal instruction (core dumped) The steps I did were: 1. echo "abcd" > test #generate a test file 2. /usr/local/emacs -q test #invoke emacs without loading my init file. 3. In emacs, do the following command: M-x replace-regexp RET \(a\)\|\(b\) RET \1Z\2Y RET (Trying to translate "a" to "Z" and "b" to "Y". This can be done by "tr ab ZY". Actually, I was trying to translate control characters to normal characters, for example, from \C-x to x.) 4. A fatal error was issued by emacs. Emacs died after that message. Is this an emacs bug?