From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 58992@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58992: 28.2; "lax space matching" no longer works
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 18:21:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221103172157.GB9807@zira.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83iljw6kbk.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2022-11-03 19:04:31 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
> > Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:53:16 +0100
> >
> > The Emacs manual says:
> >
> > 15.9 Lax Matching During Searching
> > ==================================
> > [...]
> > By default, search commands perform “lax space matching”: each space,
> > or sequence of spaces, matches any sequence of one or more whitespace
> > characters in the text. (Incremental regexp search has a separate
> > default; see *note Regexp Search::.) Hence, ‘foo bar’ matches
> > ‘foo bar’, ‘foo bar’, ‘foo bar’, and so on (but not ‘foobar’). More
> > [...]
> >
> > This is working with GNU Emacs 27, but not with GNU Emacs 28.2
> > (tested under Debian/unstable).
>
> If it works for you by default in Emacs 27, then you either didn't
> test with "emacs -Q" there or your Emacs 27 is customized wrt the
> upstream.
I tested with "emacs -Q", and I've just tested again. I confirm the
behavior I could see: a newline character is matched. That's Debian's
package emacs-gtk 1:27.1+1-3.1+b1. So perhaps Debian has changed the
default (but no changes were announced in Debian for Emacs 28, whose
behavior is different).
BTW, for users who do not spend their time in reading the full doc,
I'd suggest to clarify the doc by saying "one or more user-configurable
whitespace characters", because AFAIK, a newline character is often
regarded as a whitespace character, in particular by Unicode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character
So the default could be very surprising.
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-03 16:53 bug#58992: 28.2; "lax space matching" no longer works Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-03 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-03 17:21 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2022-11-03 17:34 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-03 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-03 17:49 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-03 17:56 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-03 18:02 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-03 18:04 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-03 18:04 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-03 18:11 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-03 18:18 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-03 18:28 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-03 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-03 18:43 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-03 18:36 ` Juri Linkov
2022-11-03 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-03 18:02 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-03 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-03 18:33 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-03 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-03 18:52 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-03 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-04 2:29 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-04 3:38 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-04 7:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-04 10:46 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-04 11:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-04 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-04 10:41 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-04 10:56 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-04 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-04 13:04 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-04 13:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-04 11:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-04 3:30 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-04 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-04 10:15 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-04 11:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-11-04 12:47 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-04 13:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-11-04 14:32 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-04 14:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-11-04 15:02 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-04 15:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-11-04 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-04 13:56 ` Robert Pluim
2022-11-04 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-04 15:00 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-04 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-05 1:55 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-11-05 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-05 11:20 ` Vincent Lefevre
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