From: "Chong Yidong" <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: search-whitespace-regexp
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 20:36:39 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46742.203.116.59.23.1107740199.squirrel@203.116.59.23> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc339e4a050206164124f61bea@mail.gmail.com>
Let me try to explain my idea more clearly.
Since RMS has raised the issue of incompatibility, I think the default
behavior for isearch should be left as it was in 21.3, for the moment. In
other words, regexp search has a magic space, and string search doesn't.
However, there should be a way for the user to customize this.
It is relatively easy for a user to get rid of the magic space for regexp
search, if he wants to:
(setq search-whitespace-regexp nil)
However, there is no easy way for a user to turn on the magic space for
string search; you have to hack isearch.el to do it. I suggest
implementing an analogous mechanism for string search (I'm not certain
what the variable should be called, though):
(defvar search-string-whitespace-regexp nil
"If non-nil, regular expression to match a sequence of whitespace chars.
This applies to ordinary incremental search.
You might want to use something like "[ \t\r\n]+" instead.")
Because the default is nil, there is no magic space, and the behavior is
like 21.3 and below; but users or Lisp libraries can set it as needed. For
example, longlines.el can set it to "[ \n]" so that linebreaks and spaces
are treated equally.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-07 1:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-04 14:12 search-whitespace-regexp Chong Yidong
2005-02-04 14:36 ` search-whitespace-regexp Andreas Schwab
2005-02-04 15:22 ` search-whitespace-regexp Chong Yidong
2005-02-04 15:27 ` search-whitespace-regexp Chong Yidong
2005-02-04 15:17 ` search-whitespace-regexp Stefan Monnier
2005-02-04 15:55 ` search-whitespace-regexp Chong Yidong
2005-02-05 17:39 ` search-whitespace-regexp Richard Stallman
2005-02-06 1:59 ` search-whitespace-regexp Chong Yidong
2005-02-06 12:42 ` search-whitespace-regexp Richard Stallman
2005-02-06 16:21 ` search-whitespace-regexp Stefan Monnier
2005-02-06 22:39 ` search-whitespace-regexp Miles Bader
2005-02-06 22:49 ` search-whitespace-regexp Stefan Monnier
2005-02-06 23:17 ` search-whitespace-regexp Miles Bader
2005-02-07 0:28 ` search-whitespace-regexp Drew Adams
2005-02-07 0:41 ` search-whitespace-regexp Miles Bader
2005-02-07 1:36 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2005-02-07 4:12 ` search-whitespace-regexp Drew Adams
2005-02-07 9:48 ` search-whitespace-regexp Andreas Schwab
2005-02-07 20:51 ` search-whitespace-regexp Richard Stallman
2005-02-07 20:51 ` search-whitespace-regexp Richard Stallman
2005-02-07 21:07 ` search-whitespace-regexp Stefan Monnier
2005-02-08 0:01 ` search-whitespace-regexp Miles Bader
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