From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10885: Replace expressions: enhance functionality when searching in filled paragraphs Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:48:08 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <8762ebbehj.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <33392837.post@talk.nabble.com> <1oipiuxspa.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87d38z1bp3.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87linm79pc.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331463088 15070 80.91.229.3 (11 Mar 2012 10:51:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:51:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kevin Rodgers , 10885@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dani Moncayo Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 11 11:51:27 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1S6gN3-00052S-3e for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:51:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46749 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6gN2-0004aE-7A for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 06:51:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39428) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6gMy-0004a9-Mr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 06:51:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6gMw-00009x-U1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 06:51:20 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37741) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6gMw-00009n-R9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 06:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S6gpi-0001J4-DZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:21:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:21:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10885 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10885-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10885.13314648495003 (code B ref 10885); Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:21:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10885) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Mar 2012 11:20:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44573 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S6gpU-0001Ie-Al for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:20:48 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhost.com ([69.163.218.105]:41432 helo=ps18281.dreamhostps.com) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S6gpR-0001IV-So for 10885@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:20:47 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01D9451C842; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:49:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Dani Moncayo's message of "Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:59:07 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:57667 Archived-At: >> There is one problem of using `search-whitespace-regexp' >> in `query-replace-regexp'. >> >> When the user doesn't want `SPC' to match any sequence of whitespace >> characters in regexp isearch `C-M-s', it it possible to type `C-q SPC'. >> >> But how to do the same in `query-replace-regexp'? >> >> `C-M-% replace C-q SPC this' doesn't quote SPC as a literal character. > > FWIW: the isearch commands have this problem too, when editing the > search string from the minibuffer. > > For example: C-M-s replace this M-e M-b DEL C-q SPC RET > --> The new search string doesn't have the intended quoted space. Actually this `search-spaces-regexp' thing is rather a feature of word search intermixed with the pure regexp search into the hybrid half-word/regexp search. What `C-q SPC' does is adding the invisible regexp `[ ]' to the search string. In the minibuffer `C-q SPC' could do the same, not necessarily invisibly because you still see `[ ]' when typing e.g. `C-M-s replace C-q SPC this M-e'