From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: query-replace doesn't match spaces with soft newlines Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:52:40 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87hcgh3cy2.fsf@jurta.org> References: <02026F45-DC05-41B1-9D95-A8DB53F9B018@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202684526 6766 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2008 23:02:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:02:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 00:02:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JOLBr-0002yO-OS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:02:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOLBO-0000WS-Lo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:01:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOLAZ-0008RG-5p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:01:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOLAY-0008Qy-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:01:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOLAX-0008Qv-Ao for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:01:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JOLAX-00046z-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:01:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166] helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JOLAW-0007np-Qw for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:01:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JOLAT-00046P-Qy for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:01:04 -0500 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JOLAT-000461-Fb for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:01:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JOLAQ-0000BM-I0; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:00:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: <02026F45-DC05-41B1-9D95-A8DB53F9B018@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:08:52 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 3140350ce96b4815fe22a3a842dc7b15 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2212 [Feb 10 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 11 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:88682 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:20999 Archived-At: > It appears that `query-replace' (or whatever this runs) does not properly > match spaces in the search string with soft newlines. It should do that > just like isearch does now. > > I encountered this when I had `longlines-mode' turned on and tried to > replace a string in the following line(s): > > \item Adjoin: Combine the \slot{New Type} with the {\sc Context > Type} according to one of the combinatorial rules. > > Note that this is one paragraph, with a soft newline in between "Context" > and "Type". To reproduce, enter it as one line and have longlines-mode > turned on (perhaps adjusting fill-column) so that it breaks right there. > > Then do M-% {\s Context Type} RET bar RET > > The string will not be replaced. Perhaps I missed a discussion about the design of longlines-mode, so I don't understand why longlines-mode doesn't put a `display' property with a newline on whitespace to display it as soft newlines. This would avoid many such problems. If this is not possible, and replacing spaces with newlines is unavoidable, then I suggest changing the plain search to the regexp search and using `search-spaces-regexp' to convert spaces to newlines to be able to match them in search and replace commands. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/