From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem with whitespaces in search Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:32:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20160129073216.GD9633@tuxteam.de> References: <20160128101634.GA1641@magellan.home> <20160128231755467878936@bob.proulx.com> <20160128153634.GA1737@magellan.home> <6c4fd85c-60b2-4efa-bc03-f6f14032529e@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454054874 7660 80.91.229.3 (29 Jan 2016 08:07:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:07:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 29 09:07:49 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aP45M-0001il-ER for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:07:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60522 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aP45L-00077P-QG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:07:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46297) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aP45B-00077H-DL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:07:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aP456-0004Lr-Jl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:07:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:58719 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aP456-0004Ln-Df for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:07:00 -0500 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aP3XU-0002ef-HQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:32:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: <6c4fd85c-60b2-4efa-bc03-f6f14032529e@default> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108909 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 08:00:45AM -0800, Drew Adams wrote: > > > This is a case where something that is a feature for one person is a > > > bug to another person. I always disable "lax space matching" myself. > > > > > > This is documented here: > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Special- > > > Isearch.html > > > > Thanks Bob. I was wishing to find sequence of whitespaces ; so I followed > > Tomas help and put (setq isearch-lax-whitespace nil) in .emacs and now I > > have what I expect. > > You can toggle the whitespace-matching behavior during Isearch using > `M-s SPC' (command `isearch-toggle-lax-whitespace'). Nifty! I didn't know about that one. Thanks, Drew - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlarFYAACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbpfQCcCIao92LRdb40jIXs7I5KxLTL LssAnAqE9Rei1+EOynKiQ6ZL8sXalsRv =c5q0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----