From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Subject: Re: isearch-forward-regexp across lines in various modes
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:38:22 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9yllh3m4b5.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: de14e8fd.0407290237.2db735c9@posting.google.com
See the doc-string for the search-whitespace-regexp variable.
>>>>> In <de14e8fd.0407290237.2db735c9@posting.google.com>
>>>>> thomas.meyer@dla-marbach.de (Thomas Meyer) wrote:
> the emacs Info file, chapter
> "Regular Expression Search" states:
> "If you type <SPC> in incremental
> regexp search, it matches any
> sequence of whitespace characters,
> including newlines. If you want to
> match just a space, type `C-q
> <SPC>'."
> I can see this behaviour when in
> text-mode, but not in e.g. lisp-mode or
> c-mode:
It is because the char syntax for newline is different between
text-mode and others. The following form returns " " for
text-mode, but returns ">" for lisp-mode.
(char-to-string (char-syntax ?\n))
--
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
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2004-07-29 10:37 isearch-forward-regexp across lines in various modes Thomas Meyer
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