From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: search-whitespace-regexp
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:39:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1CxTtu-0001em-5a@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1982.220.255.95.17.1107526353.squirrel@220.255.95.17> (cyd@stupidchicken.com)
However, I believe that
using search-whitespace-regexp in isearch-forward-regexp is a misfeature.
It should instead be used for isearch-forward.
For years, string search has treated characters literally while regexp
search has treated space as "any whitespace". To reverse this would
be an incompatible change that would affect every user.
I think you're the first person ever to ask for this change. I think
it would cause more trouble than benefit.
However, if a poll of users is done, and we find that most users would
prefer this change, I would consider it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-05 17:39 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 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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 ` search-whitespace-regexp Chong Yidong
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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