From: "B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Searching for spaces
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 14:36:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lkts8j01n7h@news6.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1157.1399922318.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Current computer: Kubuntu 14.04 and emacs 24.3.1
> Previous computer: Kubuntu 12.04 and emacs 23.3.1
>
> With the new machine I'm no longer able to search for consecutive
> spaces. Specifically, I regularly want to search for 5 consecutive
> spaces as part of a keyboard macro. The beginning of that macro is as
> follows:
>
> C-x-(, C-s-<space>-<space>-<space>-<space>-<space>
>
> The above would locate each instance of 5 consecutive spaces. This is
> no longer the case. How can I get the old behavior back?
>
> Thank you,
> Gary
>
Oops, sent to Gary only (reply instead of followup)
I guess you have to fall back to 23.3 I see the same behavior even with
C-s (without using a macro). Repeated invocations of C-s moves cursor to
the next space, not the next string of 5 spaces. Btw, I don't think you
need that comma after the open paren. Maybe you saw the comma when you
queried with C-h k:
"
C-x ( runs the command kmacro-start-macro, which is an interactive
autoloaded compiled Lisp function in `kmacro.el'.
It is bound to C-x (, C-x C-k C-s, C-x C-k s.
"
Ed
Btw, am on w32 and w64
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2014-05-13 19:36 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
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2014-05-16 17:37 ` Searching for spaces B. T. Raven
2014-05-16 21:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-12 19:17 Gary Hodges (NOAA Affiliate)
2014-05-12 19:29 ` Drew Adams
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2014-05-13 19:52 ` B. T. Raven
2014-05-13 20:31 ` Drew Adams
2014-05-14 0:20 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-05-28 22:37 ` Gary Hodges (NOAA Affiliate)
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