* bug#17433: Emacs24 searching for multiple spaces @ 2014-05-07 17:40 Paul Channell 2014-05-07 17:47 ` Glenn Morris 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Paul Channell @ 2014-05-07 17:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 17433 Emacs24 can't do incremental searches for multiple spaces, though Emacs23 does it well. I use this frequently in defining macros to operate on heterogeneous files. Paul Channell ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* bug#17433: Emacs24 searching for multiple spaces 2014-05-07 17:40 bug#17433: Emacs24 searching for multiple spaces Paul Channell @ 2014-05-07 17:47 ` Glenn Morris 2014-05-08 1:45 ` Paul Channell 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Glenn Morris @ 2014-05-07 17:47 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Paul Channell; +Cc: 17433 Paul Channell wrote: > Emacs24 can't do incremental searches for multiple spaces, though > Emacs23 does it well. Perhaps you want: (setq search-whitespace-regexp nil) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* bug#17433: Emacs24 searching for multiple spaces 2014-05-07 17:47 ` Glenn Morris @ 2014-05-08 1:45 ` Paul Channell 2014-05-09 6:47 ` Glenn Morris 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Paul Channell @ 2014-05-08 1:45 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Glenn Morris On 05/07/2014 11:47 AM, Glenn Morris wrote: > Paul Channell wrote: > >> Emacs24 can't do incremental searches for multiple spaces, though >> Emacs23 does it well. > Perhaps you want: > > (setq search-whitespace-regexp nil) I would like to search for a specified number of spaces, say 12 or 19 etc and to do this while defining a macro to be applied many times. I set the number of blanks while recording the macro. Thanks! Paul Channell ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* bug#17433: Emacs24 searching for multiple spaces 2014-05-08 1:45 ` Paul Channell @ 2014-05-09 6:47 ` Glenn Morris 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Glenn Morris @ 2014-05-09 6:47 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Paul Channell; +Cc: 17433 (Please keep the debbugs address cc'd) Paul Channell wrote: >> (setq search-whitespace-regexp nil) > > I would like to search for a specified number of spaces, say 12 or 19 etc > and to do this while defining a macro to be applied many times. I set the > number of blanks while recording the macro. I believe setting search-whitespace-regexp to nil will allow you to do that. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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