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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 3e9ac80: Yet another doc improvement for search commands
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 17:37:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d1uqkwn4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAdUY-+Y4r1arH7zyckGd3J4E36iN+mQi7Xj+m4nVCmpQxSYmg@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 10:36:59 +0000
> From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, emacs-diffs@gnu.org
> 
> >> Really? I could have sworn they can.
> > I tried.  Maybe I made a mistake.  Can you show an example where it
> > does?
> 
> I wasn't sure earlier, but yes, they do.
> 
> Just type "a    b" in a buffer and do `word-search-forward' for "a b".

That's not because of lax-space matching, IIUC.  That's because word
search ignores any non-word characters between words.

What I meant is this:

  C-s M-s w a b M-s SPC

After you type the "M-s SPC" toggle, Emacs says "[match spaces
literally]", but "a   b" etc. are still highlighted as matches.

Maybe we should add a note that, although lax-whitespace matching is
not supported with word search, it is also not needed, because spaces
between words are ignored anyway?



  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-01 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20151130173139.31071.34723@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <E1a3SId-00085l-Mj@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-11-30 19:58   ` emacs-25 3e9ac80: Yet another doc improvement for search commands Artur Malabarba
2015-11-30 20:48     ` [Emacs-diffs] " Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-01 10:36       ` Artur Malabarba
2015-12-01 15:37         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-12-01 18:05           ` [Emacs-diffs] " Artur Malabarba
2015-12-01 19:30             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-01 20:04               ` Artur Malabarba
2015-12-01 21:06                 ` Drew Adams
     [not found]     ` <<83oaebkybx.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-11-30 21:47       ` Drew Adams

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