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 21:30:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vb8ij79w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAdUY-LuAhBntu5cJs4jmG2K=A28wir2H1m0hiKBJJU3ZWh5ug@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 18:05:54 +0000
> From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> On 1 Dec 2015 3:37 pm, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Yes. We shouldn't say it can't do lax-whitespace, cause the reality is that it
> can't NOT do lax-whitespace.
>
> We can either say nothing, or say something like:
> The word search commands don't perform character folding and are not affected
> by lax whitespace matching (since they ignore the spaces between words anyway,
> @pxref{Lax Search}).
I said instead that lax-whitespace matching has no effect on these
commands.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-01 19:30 UTC|newest]
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[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 ` [Emacs-diffs] " Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-01 18:05 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-12-01 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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