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Re: search-whitespace-regexp
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: search-whitespace-regexp |
Date: |
Mon, 7 Feb 2005 08:17:41 +0900 |
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:49:42 -0500, Stefan Monnier
<address@hidden> wrote:
> >> 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".
>
> > FWIW, there are definitely cases where I get pissed at regexp-search
> > for doing that -- it's not always the case that one is just searching
> > for words that are separated by "some whitespace", sometimes the
> > actual whitespace matters.
>
> Right: in *regexp* search.
Er, well, that's the point -- so far it's been a problem only in
regexp search because that feature (whitespace fuzzy matching) has
only been implemented there. If it's implemented by default in normal
isearch, it might start to be a problem there too.
It might even be a bigger problem because while people generally
expect regexp searches to be a bit fuzzy, they might expect a
non-regexp search to be exact. Since the fuzzy whitespace matching
often "looks" like normal matching (because the majority of whitespace
is in fact a single space), it might take some time to see what's
going on, resulting in some subtle errors. This is particularly true
if one embeds a search inside a keyboard macro [which I often do].
-Miles
--
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, (continued)
- 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, 2005/02/06
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Miles Bader, 2005/02/06
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/06
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp,
Miles Bader <=
- 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
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/07
- Re: search-whitespace-regexp, Miles Bader, 2005/02/07