From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Searching for space fails Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:18:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7fbd53af-b93e-4baa-9437-bb5eddf637be@googlegroups.com> References: <87k2sj4vgw.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440534030 20562 80.91.229.3 (25 Aug 2015 20:20:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:20:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 25 22:20:29 2015 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 1ZUKhn-0003wU-TB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 22:20:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34380 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUKhi-0000CS-7y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:20:22 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.146.227 with SMTP id tf3mr30784815pab.21.1440533914177; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:18:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.137.7 with SMTP id qe7mr81929igb.17.1440533914142; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:18:34 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!se8no10313696igc.0!news-out.google.com!f6ni5155igi.0!nntp.google.com!u8no308433igq.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.34.29; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.34.29 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:18:34 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214553 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:106837 Archived-At: On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 10:36:03 PM UTC+5:30, J. David Boyd wrote: > "Loris Bennett" writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Today I found that I was unable to search for spaces with isearch. It > > turns out that 'search-whitespace-regexp' was set to 'nil' rather than > > the default '\s-+'. > > > > As I am pretty sure I didn't customise the variable myself, does anyone > > know how it might have been changed? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Loris > > Stray cosmic radiation. > > Dave :-) If it works as before with emacs -Q then the cosmos has shrunk a bit... to your init which you can proceed to debug that.