From: Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: search-whitespace-regexp
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 08:17:41 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc339e4a050206151717835d3b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ekftpan6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:49:42 -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.
>
> Right: in *regexp* search.
Er, well, that's the point -- so far it's been a problem only in
regexp search because that feature (whitespace fuzzy matching) has
only been implemented there. If it's implemented by default in normal
isearch, it might start to be a problem there too.
It might even be a bigger problem because while people generally
expect regexp searches to be a bit fuzzy, they might expect a
non-regexp search to be exact. Since the fuzzy whitespace matching
often "looks" like normal matching (because the majority of whitespace
is in fact a single space), it might take some time to see what's
going on, resulting in some subtle errors. This is particularly true
if one embeds a search inside a keyboard macro [which I often do].
-Miles
--
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-06 23:17 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 ` search-whitespace-regexp Miles Bader
2005-02-06 22:49 ` search-whitespace-regexp Stefan Monnier
2005-02-06 23:17 ` Miles Bader [this message]
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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