From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'bitterspetey'" <business@stevepetersen.net>, <Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Search in filled text does not work correctly
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:22:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2E3EE58BB1664250B5239F1C1DDCD52D@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33392628.post@talk.nabble.com>
> But suppose you wanted to replace the phrase? Then it looks
> like incremental word search will not help, and you need the
> fancy regexp with the literal line feed character.
>
> Given that in the short time I've been watching this list
> the issue has come up twice, does it make sense to call
> this a bug of sorts? It's a little disappointing that it's
> difficult to do something as straightforward as
> searching / replacing a phrase. It seems in search contexts
> emacs should read a space as whitespace or feed, unless
> it's escaped or something.
The way to register an enhancement request is to use `M-x report-emacs-bug'.
(That's for enhancement requests, not just for bugs.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-25 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-25 12:59 Search in filled text does not work correctly linuxfever
2012-02-25 14:10 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-02-25 14:54 ` linuxfever
2012-02-25 15:03 ` linuxfever
2012-02-25 23:17 ` bitterspetey
2012-02-25 23:22 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-02-26 0:30 ` linuxfever
2012-02-26 1:05 ` linuxfever
2012-02-26 1:18 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-26 1:31 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-26 1:59 ` Gregory (Greg) Benjamin
2012-02-26 19:41 ` bitterspetey
2012-02-26 19:58 ` bitterspetey
2012-02-27 13:26 ` Ludwig, Mark
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