From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 22494@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#22494: still can't search for two spaces
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 23:47:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871t8yit11.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54a07b7d-1fbd-4ed1-a8a0-e22eb5787c97@default>
On 2016-01-30, at 23:28, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> > > I still can't search for two spaces with C-s SPC SPC.
>> > > It still just sits on the first match for single space.
>>
>> > Crystal ball says you didn't read the manual, which explains that you
>> > need to type M-s SPC after C-s to get what you want (which is literal
>> > space matching).
>>
>> This is a bug. When the user types SPC SPC in a search string,
>> person clearly wants to search for two spaces. It should do that.
>
> +1
+1
> And then what if the user made a mistake typing that second SPC
> char - i.e., didn't really mean to search literally for multiple
> whitespace chars? It won't be enough to just delete the second
> SPC char (but the user might try that).
Why couldn't it be enough?
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
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2016-01-30 22:28 ` bug#22494: still can't search for two spaces Drew Adams
2016-01-30 22:47 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2016-01-31 0:02 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-31 20:31 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-31 0:08 ` Juri Linkov
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2016-01-31 21:29 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-01 11:01 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-01 11:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-02-01 14:15 ` Dani Moncayo
2016-02-03 6:45 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-03 14:57 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-03 18:56 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-03 19:08 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-03 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-03 15:44 ` Nicolas Richard
2016-01-30 6:34 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2016-01-30 7:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 22:10 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-31 5:39 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-31 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-01 0:13 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2016-02-01 1:57 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-01 3:10 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
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