[Fwd: Re: Bug: Unable to request replace-string of " \t"]

[Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

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From: Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: Bob Rogers <rogers-emacs@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
Subject: Re: Bug: Unable to request replace-string of " \t"
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 08:33:04 +0200
Message-ID: <44B9DDA0.8050202@easy-emacs.de>

Bob Rogers schrieb:
>    When invoking the replace-string command from the keyboard, spaces
> seem to get dropped from the first argument to replace-string if
> followed by a TAB character.  To reproduce:
>
>    1.  "emacs -Q"
>
>    2.  "M-x replace-string RET SPC TAB RET x RET".  It won't matter that
> it doesn't replace anything.  Notice that the SPC and TAB are inserted
> into the minibuffer normally, though the prompt after typing RET says
> "Replace regexp ^I with: ", indicating that the SPC was deleted.
>
>    3.  You can also do "C-x ESC ESC" to verify that the actual first
> argument to replace-string consists of a single TAB.
>
>    Wierd, eh?  I discovered it in an emacs built two weeks ago, and then
> reproduced it in one built via "make bootstrap" from CVS as of about
> half an hour ago.  I followed the trail as far as read_minibuf, but then
> got lost.
>
>   

This seems avoidable quoting both chars

"M-x replace-string RET C-q SPC C-q TAB RET x RET"

BTW is this in the docu? At a first glance searching at
`string-replace' I couldn't see it.

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Andreas Roehler




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