From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Udyant Wig <udyant@rudiments.goosenet.in>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Possible misleading example in `Incremental Search' Info node
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 07:21:06 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3c73d2fb-04c9-4c2b-ba61-cdeed1473a36@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2fwbu0w.fsf@rudiments.goosenet.in>
> I was reading the _Incremental_Search_ Info node in the Emacs manual.
> In "15.1.4 Special Input for Incremental Search", found via
>
> (info "(emacs)Special Isearch")
>
> the second paragraph discusses "lax space matching", and its second and
> third sentences read as follows in my version of Emacs:
>
> Hence, 'foo bar' matches 'foo bar', 'foo bar', 'foo bar', and so on
> (but not 'foobar'). More precisely, Emacs matches each sequence of
> space characters in the search string to a regular expression
> specified by the variable 'search-whitespace-regexp'.
>
> From my understanding of that full paragraph, the following illustrates
> the default behaviour. Suppose that we have the text
>
> foobar
> foo bar
> foo bar
> foo bar
Good catch. I've reported that regression (using `M-x report-emacs-bug')
as bug #24151.
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24151
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-04 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-04 12:25 Possible misleading example in `Incremental Search' Info node Udyant Wig
2016-08-04 13:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-04 14:21 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-08-04 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
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