From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: When was a change installed?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:18:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ZS7w7-00020K-3D@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhd79a21.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Wed, 19 Aug 2015 06:28:06 +0200)
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I finally succeeded in running an Emacs from July 2014. (Work was
required to make it run.) I was flabbergasted to find that it DID do
the lax whitespace search.
Has the feature been active for 3 years and I never noticed until now?
It looks that way.
I tried various cases and learned something that might explain
why I didn't notice it.
It seems that the feature applies only to SPC. Entering C-j matches
only newline. That seems to explain why my searches for C-j C-j
always worked as intended.
Given that in lax matching SPC matches any sequence of whitespace,
there is no sense in a lax SPC preceded or followed by another
whitespace character.
Thus I propose that SPC adjacent to some other whitespace character
should match only a single space. In particular C-j SPC should match
only newline space, and SPC SPC should match only space space.
What do people think of that?
Meanwhile, how about colorizing a space in the echo area when it is
being searched for laxly? That should help users understand what is
happening.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <mvmpp2mgyz0.fsf@hawking.suse.de>
2015-08-18 3:42 ` When was a change installed? Richard Stallman
2015-08-18 14:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-19 6:38 ` Steinar Bang
2015-08-19 18:16 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-18 14:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-08-19 1:19 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-19 4:28 ` David Kastrup
2015-08-19 18:18 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2015-08-20 2:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-19 1:19 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-19 7:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-08-19 18:18 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-19 9:22 ` Bastien
2015-08-19 9:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-08-19 9:57 ` Stephen Berman
2015-08-19 10:16 ` Damien Wyart
2015-08-18 14:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-08-19 1:24 ` Richard Stallman
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