From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Searching for spaces Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 17:38:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400276350 3921 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2014 21:39:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 21:39:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 16 23:39:03 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WlPqG-0003tF-V5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 23:39:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37942 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlPqG-0001OF-JZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 17:39:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlPpx-0001Nq-Qn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 17:38:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlPpp-0003X9-3v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 17:38:41 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:32903) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlPpo-0003Wr-Si for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 17:38:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WlPpn-0002YM-In for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 23:38:31 +0200 Original-Received: from 23-91-155-216.cpe.pppoe.ca ([23.91.155.216]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 23:38:31 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 23-91-155-216.cpe.pppoe.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 23:38:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 23-91-155-216.cpe.pppoe.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9B0N4g7Ly+d/RIRJk748zs9A9JI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:97724 Archived-At: > Thanks Drew and Robert. I just added the (setq form below to my .emacs > and now 24.3 acts like 23.3. I guess a non-nil regexp is more useful > here at least for programmers. BTW, while SPC is treated specially in such searches (so it matches more than a single space), I seem to remember agreeing that it's a bug for SPC SPC SPC to match less than 3 spaces. Not sure if we did fix the bug, tho, but if you try 24.3.91 you might find that this is fixed. Stefan