From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: search-whitespace-regexp
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:07:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv6514ulkh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CyFr5-0006hU-1Z@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:51:35 -0500")
> AFAICT everybody is happy
> with the behavior where a space in the search text is interpreted as "any
> sequence of blank chars".
> Do you mean, everyone would be happy if a space in string search text
> were interpreted that way?
Yes. Especially if the regexp-search (in contrast) doesn't use such magic.
This way, you can easily turn off the magic (by using regexp-search) for
those rare cases where you really want to match "just one space".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-07 21:07 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 ` 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 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-02-08 0:01 ` search-whitespace-regexp Miles Bader
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