From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: search-whitespace-regexp Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:49:42 -0500 Message-ID: <87ekftpan6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <1982.220.255.95.17.1107526353.squirrel@220.255.95.17> <35379.203.116.59.24.1107655186.squirrel@203.116.59.24> <87pszdslu1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107730198 14909 80.91.229.2 (6 Feb 2005 22:49:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 06 23:49:57 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CxvE0-0005mF-N1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 23:49:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CxvS1-0001dh-5j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:04:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CxvRn-0001b2-Oe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:04:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CxvRi-0001Yj-GZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:04:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CxvRi-0001YJ-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:04:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.25] (helo=tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CxvDr-0001YP-27; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:49:43 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([65.92.240.235]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050206224942.HKSE2026.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 17:49:42 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 41D8DD7343; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 17:49:42 -0500 (EST) Original-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 7 Feb 2005 07:39:23 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32975 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32975 >> Wait. That doesn't make any sense. I haven't seen *anyone* ask for plain >> search to treat spaces as "just one SPC char". AFAICT everybody is happy >> with the behavior where a space in the search text is interpreted as "any >> sequence of blank chars". > FWIW, there are definitely cases where I get pissed at regexp-search > for doing that -- it's not always the case that one is just searching > for words that are separated by "some whitespace", sometimes the > actual whitespace matters. Right: in *regexp* search. Stefan