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Re: search-whitespace-regexp
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: search-whitespace-regexp |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Feb 2005 11:21:27 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> In that case, I propose just changing string search, using a variable
> search-whitespace, analogous to search-whitespace-regexp. This should
> default to nil, so that the default behavior of string search is identical
> to Emacs 21.3 and below. If the user customizes the value, he gets the
> "magical space" behavior.
Wait. That doesn't make any sense. I haven't seen *anyone* ask for plain
search to treat spaces as "just one SPC char". AFAICT everybody is happy
with the behavior where a space in the search text is interpreted as "any
sequence of blank chars".
The only discussion here is about removing the "magic space" from
regexp-searches, not from plain searches. Or did I miss something?
Stefan
- search-whitespace-regexp, Chong Yidong, 2005/02/04
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Andreas Schwab, 2005/02/04
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/04
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/05
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Chong Yidong, 2005/02/05
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/06
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Miles Bader, 2005/02/06
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/06
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Miles Bader, 2005/02/06
- RE: search-whitespace-regexp, Drew Adams, 2005/02/06
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Miles Bader, 2005/02/06
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Chong Yidong, 2005/02/06
- RE: search-whitespace-regexp, Drew Adams, 2005/02/06
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Andreas Schwab, 2005/02/07
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/07
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/07