From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ludwig, Mark" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Search in filled text does not work correctly Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:26:46 +0000 Message-ID: References: <33390451.post@talk.nabble.com> <86k43a1hik.fsf@dbn66.laserlab.com> <33395942.post@talk.nabble.com> <33395991.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330349229 7330 80.91.229.3 (27 Feb 2012 13:27:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:27:09 +0000 (UTC) To: bitterspetey , "Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 27 14:27:07 2012 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 1S20bW-00027t-Le for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:27:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52370 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S20bW-0006Ie-4p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:27:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34066) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S20bO-00068K-4P for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:26:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S20bJ-0003ai-M8 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:26:53 -0500 Original-Received: from usslmhub002.ugs.com ([134.244.32.85]:39277 helo=ugs.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S20bJ-0003aY-HO for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:26:49 -0500 Original-Received: from USSLMMBX002.net.plm.eds.com (161.134.138.62) by USSLMHUB002.net.plm.eds.com (134.244.32.85) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.323.3; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:26:47 -0600 Original-Received: from USSLMMBX003.net.plm.eds.com ([169.254.2.34]) by USSLMMBX002.net.plm.eds.com ([169.254.1.67]) with mapi id 14.01.0323.003; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:26:46 -0600 Thread-Topic: Search in filled text does not work correctly Thread-Index: AQHM9CpQmbCpIKxwK0eUZ24Qx9PnVJZP+ZkAgAAEiwCAAL03MA== In-Reply-To: <33395991.post@talk.nabble.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [146.122.220.92] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 2000 SP2+, XP SP1+ (seldom 98) X-Received-From: 134.244.32.85 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:83881 Archived-At: I've been using Emacs for >30 years, and I've always wished that searching = for a specific sequence of characters and words including whitespace in a t= ext file would automatically span lines. Of course, early on, I learned how to form the regular expression that does= this (this predates the "\s-" construct in today's GNU Emacs). This reque= st feels to me like a different sort of search. Were I doing this 30 years= ago, I would have called it Isearch-English or something like that. (Most= ly I work with computer languages, which is why I never got around to writi= ng anything like this....) In today's multi-lingual world, I'm not sure wh= at to call it, and I also don't know which natural languages (outside of th= e obvious European-based languages) would work with this concept. Cheers, Mark -----Original Message----- From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+ludwig.mark=3Dsiemens.com@gnu.org [mailto:help= -gnu-emacs-bounces+ludwig.mark=3Dsiemens.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of bittersp= etey Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 1:58 PM To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: Re: Search in filled text does not work correctly Oops. Now this is working for me to find 'foo bar' across lines and such: foo\s-*bar I swear it wasn't before. I have no idea what could make the difference - the major mode? Anyway I still think the space in a simple 'foo bar' should be interpreted widely in search contexts, unless explicitly escaped or something. --=20 View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Search-in-filled-text-d= oes-not-work-correctly-tp33390451p33395991.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.