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Subject: Re: emacs 22 - regular-expression isearch on spaces extremely
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"Ken Manheimer" <ken.manheimer@gmail.com> writes:
> i'm starting to realize that this behavior has been in emacs 22 for at
> least a while, and is not in emacs 21.  can anyone tell me whether or
> not it's deliberate, and what the rationale is?

I'm pretty sure it's deliberate, though I can't give a good rationale
for it (I think it's stupid and annoying behavior), nor find a NEWS
entry for it....  However I recall people talking about it on
emacs-devel as if it were a feature.

-Miles
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