From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>, 10885@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10885: Replace expressions: enhance functionality when searching in filled paragraphs
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:59:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8Pv0j2Q8tyXTN7ee4phqW2ZqSVwoc=xv=B6b2YMtQAaLbxQA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87linm79pc.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 01:41, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:
>> The doc and manual would need updating; since at present
>> search-whitespace-regexp is only documented to affect incremental
>> searches.
>
> There is one problem of using `search-whitespace-regexp'
> in `query-replace-regexp'.
>
> When the user doesn't want `SPC' to match any sequence of whitespace
> characters in regexp isearch `C-M-s', it it possible to type `C-q SPC'.
>
> But how to do the same in `query-replace-regexp'?
>
> `C-M-% replace C-q SPC this' doesn't quote SPC as a literal character.
FWIW: the isearch commands have this problem too, when editing the
search string from the minibuffer.
For example: C-M-s replace this M-e M-b DEL C-q SPC RET
--> The new search string doesn't have the intended quoted space.
--
Dani Moncayo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-11 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-26 1:02 bug#10885: Replace expressions: enhance functionality when searching in filled paragraphs linuxfever
2012-02-26 1:57 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-26 7:16 ` Kevin Rodgers
2012-02-28 10:04 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-02-28 10:09 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-02-28 10:42 ` Juri Linkov
2012-02-29 0:12 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-29 0:41 ` Juri Linkov
2012-03-11 8:59 ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
2012-03-11 10:48 ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-02 9:45 ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-02 11:32 ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-05 8:38 ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-05 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-06 8:54 ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-06 15:54 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-09-06 16:50 ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-06 17:39 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-09-06 19:11 ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-06 19:15 ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-06 19:45 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-09-06 20:21 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-09-06 21:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-07 8:33 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-09-07 9:28 ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-09 22:15 ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-05 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-26 10:10 ` linuxfever
2012-02-26 21:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-26 10:17 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-02-27 10:58 ` Juri Linkov
2012-02-27 13:27 ` Dani Moncayo
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