From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: query-replace doesn't match spaces with soft newlines
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:16:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlu7xczw.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6fkclkx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:45:34 +0900")
>> Perhaps I missed a discussion about the design of longlines-mode,
>> so I don't understand why longlines-mode doesn't put a `display'
>> property with a newline on whitespace to display it as soft newlines.
>> This would avoid many such problems.
>
> Because doing that makes many important emacs commands work incorrectly
> (from the user's viewpoint) -- e.g., C-e will move to the end of the
> paragraph...
Ok, I see now. Many commands are expected to work on the visual
representation, so only a few commands that incorrectly treat inserted
newlines should be fixed. I see no problem in matching additional
newlines in `query-replace' and the regexp search, but I don't see
how to distinguish soft newlines inserted by longlines-mode and hard
newlines with the `hard' property using the regexp search, i.e. how
(re-search-forward "[ \t\n]") could find soft newlines and skip
hard newlines?
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-12 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-08 12:08 query-replace doesn't match spaces with soft newlines David Reitter
2008-02-10 22:52 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-11 1:45 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-12 0:16 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
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