From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs 22 - regular-expression isearch on spaces extremely lenient
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 22:04:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FakFy-0004NA-8x@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e357an$1v9$1@sea.gmane.org> (message from Kevin Rodgers on Mon, 01 May 2006 08:51:25 -0600)
> I haven't the slightest idea how to toggle it, which of course is the
> important question. But I do have an idea: for regexp searches, if
> while I'm typing my regexp, and I type a space, and this feature is
> on, it'd be lovely if Emacs would simply insert the appropriate regexp
> for whitespace -- such as \s-+ -- into the mini-buffer. That way I
> will learn a bit more about regexps.
That could help clarify matters for some users, but it could be
confusing for other users.
That space in regexp i-search matches all whitespace is not a new
feature. We have only changed the way it is implemented, to make
quoting spaces more reliable. So I see no urgent need to change this.
But I would not mind adding an option to make SPC echo as some other
string in regexp i-search. Then, after the release, we could
ask users to try turning it on and say whether they like it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-02 2:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-04-28 20:56 ` emacs 22 - regular-expression isearch on spaces extremely lenient Ken Manheimer
2006-04-29 14:41 ` Drew Adams
2006-04-29 17:23 ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-05-01 14:51 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-05-02 2:04 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2006-05-01 18:04 ` ken manheimer
2006-05-01 18:44 ` emacs 22 - regular-expression isearch on spacesextremely lenient Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1189.1146507010.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-05-30 5:17 ` emacs 22 - regular-expression isearch on spaces extremely lenient David Combs
2006-05-30 6:21 ` Tim X
2006-05-30 8:31 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <mailman.1109.1146290553.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-04-29 7:47 ` Miles Bader
[not found] <mailman.1118.1146321681.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-04-29 15:16 ` don provan
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