From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Search in filled text does not work correctly Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:22:23 -0800 Message-ID: <2E3EE58BB1664250B5239F1C1DDCD52D@us.oracle.com> References: <33390451.post@talk.nabble.com><9E73D463-A925-41F6-A803-BEE1DD4951BD@Web.DE><33390812.post@talk.nabble.com> <33390841.post@talk.nabble.com> <33392628.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330212201 28859 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2012 23:23:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:23:21 +0000 (UTC) To: "'bitterspetey'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 26 00:23:20 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S1QxT-000685-9w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:23:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45268 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S1QxS-0005TA-Bh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:23:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38771) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S1QxG-0005Sp-GT for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:23:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S1Qx8-0004Sx-EJ for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:23:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:38932) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S1Qx8-0004SJ-84 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:22:58 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q1PNMXD7008137 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:22:33 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1PNMVSN002792 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:22:32 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt116.oracle.com (abhmt116.oracle.com [141.146.116.68]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q1PNMVSi007681; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:22:31 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.40.183) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:22:31 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <33392628.post@talk.nabble.com> Thread-Index: Acz0E6EGgEqNTYAQSq+nfnhguEoPRwAAGCxw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090206.4F496D3A.003F,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 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:83858 Archived-At: > But suppose you wanted to replace the phrase? Then it looks > like incremental word search will not help, and you need the > fancy regexp with the literal line feed character. > > Given that in the short time I've been watching this list > the issue has come up twice, does it make sense to call > this a bug of sorts? It's a little disappointing that it's > difficult to do something as straightforward as > searching / replacing a phrase. It seems in search contexts > emacs should read a space as whitespace or feed, unless > it's escaped or something. The way to register an enhancement request is to use `M-x report-emacs-bug'. (That's for enhancement requests, not just for bugs.)