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bug#21277: 25.0.50; char-fold search is a screw, and I can't see how to
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Artur Malabarba |
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bug#21277: 25.0.50; char-fold search is a screw, and I can't see how to disable |
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Tue, 18 Aug 2015 22:58:06 +0100 |
2015-08-18 13:30 GMT+01:00 Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>:
> I like that behavior because I frequently search for "some text" in
> prose, and then it allows me to find also the matches where the two
> words are wrapped around.
Me too, it's very useful in prose. I agree that it's not super useful
in code. But it's also not harmful enough in code that it should be
disabled in prose.
> But I think the `isearch-lax-whitespace' feature can still be improved:
> [...]
> I had expected that only space characters in the search string are
> replaced by `search-whitespace-regexp' but it seems that any whitespace
> character is replaced by it. I think this is not good.
I agree.
> And IMHO, it would be a good idea to disable lax-whitespace for the
> current search as soon as the search string contains a non-space
> whitespace character. I think if the user explicitly types C-j, C-i,
> etc. she's probably not interested in treating spaces as any-whitespace
> but wants to distinguish newlines from tabs and spaces.
I'm so sure this would be good, but I'm not sure it would be bad either.
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- bug#21277: 25.0.50; char-fold search is a screw, and I can't see how to disable, Tassilo Horn, 2015/08/18
- bug#21277: 25.0.50; char-fold search is a screw, and I can't see how to disable, Drew Adams, 2015/08/18
- bug#21277: 25.0.50; char-fold search is a screw, and I can't see how to disable,
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- bug#21277: 25.0.50; char-fold search is a screw, and I can't see how to disable, Artur Malabarba, 2015/08/18
- bug#21277: 25.0.50; char-fold search is a screw, and I can't see how to disable, Richard Stallman, 2015/08/20
- bug#21277: 25.0.50; char-fold search is a screw, and I can't see how to disable, Juri Linkov, 2015/08/20
- bug#21277: 25.0.50; char-fold search is a screw, and I can't see how to disable, Richard Stallman, 2015/08/18
bug#21277: 25.0.50; char-fold search is a screw, and I can't see how to disable, Mark Oteiza, 2015/08/18
bug#21277: 25.0.50; char-fold search is a screw, and I can't see how to disable, Artur Malabarba, 2015/08/18
bug#21277: 25.0.50; char-fold search is a screw, and I can't see how to disable, Juri Linkov, 2015/08/20