From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Loris Bennett" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Searching for space fails Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:34:55 +0200 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <87k2sj4vgw.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440491722 26663 80.91.229.3 (25 Aug 2015 08:35:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 08:35:22 +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 10:35:21 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 1ZU9hQ-0004cS-EX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:35:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58708 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZU9hP-0007uT-Kv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 04:35:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 8P479EUTk3hJwzpjCdS4ZwdWOH7R/3VYWZyXuk7BXcytbb Cancel-Lock: sha1:QO4Uf1qYzrlRLWxqN7ynmSY2H74= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214546 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:106830 Archived-At: 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 -- This signature is currently under construction.