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Re: Searching for spaces
From: |
B. T. Raven |
Subject: |
Re: Searching for spaces |
Date: |
Tue, 13 May 2014 14:36:42 -0500 |
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 |
> Current computer: Kubuntu 14.04 and emacs 24.3.1
> Previous computer: Kubuntu 12.04 and emacs 23.3.1
>
> With the new machine I'm no longer able to search for consecutive
> spaces. Specifically, I regularly want to search for 5 consecutive
> spaces as part of a keyboard macro. The beginning of that macro is as
> follows:
>
> C-x-(, C-s-<space>-<space>-<space>-<space>-<space>
>
> The above would locate each instance of 5 consecutive spaces. This is
> no longer the case. How can I get the old behavior back?
>
> Thank you,
> Gary
>
Oops, sent to Gary only (reply instead of followup)
I guess you have to fall back to 23.3 I see the same behavior even with
C-s (without using a macro). Repeated invocations of C-s moves cursor to
the next space, not the next string of 5 spaces. Btw, I don't think you
need that comma after the open paren. Maybe you saw the comma when you
queried with C-h k:
"
C-x ( runs the command kmacro-start-macro, which is an interactive
autoloaded compiled Lisp function in `kmacro.el'.
It is bound to C-x (, C-x C-k C-s, C-x C-k s.
"
Ed
Btw, am on w32 and w64