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On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:05:51 +0100, coriordan@compsoc.com wrote:

> I was searching
> for sentences that were separated with only one space
> so I used the regexp search with "\. [^ ]".  My
> search kept matching sentences with two spaces.
> The minibuffer was showing my regexp as "\.\s-+[^ ]".

I bet that happened while you used `isearch-forward-regexp'.

Please check the docstring of the variable `search-whitespace-regexp'.


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