From: Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: search-whitespace-regexp
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 07:39:23 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc339e4a05020614396acab0b6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pszdslu1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 11:21:27 -0500, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> 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.
-Miles
--
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-06 22:39 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 ` search-whitespace-regexp Richard Stallman
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 ` Miles Bader [this message]
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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