From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 3e9ac80: Yet another doc improvement for search commands Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 21:30:51 +0200 Message-ID: <83vb8ij79w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20151130173139.31071.34723@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83oaebkybx.fsf@gnu.org> <83d1uqkwn4.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448998276 32070 80.91.229.3 (1 Dec 2015 19:31:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 19:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 01 20:31:06 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1a3qdk-0002KS-5H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 20:31:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54548 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3qdj-0005fH-Iy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:31:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54283) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3qdf-0005ce-90 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:30:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3qdb-000612-5r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:30:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:42281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3qda-00060q-VN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:30:55 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NYP0090021K7O00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 21:28:01 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NYP0012422PPZ70@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 21:28:01 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195707 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 18:05:54 +0000 > From: Artur Malabarba > Cc: emacs-devel > > On 1 Dec 2015 3:37 pm, "Eli Zaretskii" wrote: > > Maybe we should add a note that, although lax-whitespace matching is > > not supported with word search, it is also not needed, because spaces > > between words are ignored anyway? > > Yes. We shouldn't say it can't do lax-whitespace, cause the reality is that it > can't NOT do lax-whitespace. > > We can either say nothing, or say something like: > The word search commands don't perform character folding and are not affected > by lax whitespace matching (since they ignore the spaces between words anyway, > @pxref{Lax Search}). I said instead that lax-whitespace matching has no effect on these commands.