From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Cc: 21277@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21277: 25.0.50; char-fold search is a screw, and I can't see how to disable
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 22:58:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAdUY-KgMuhphRBaoRT9e=e-EKNnsV1rMFYSv_wEbKFrKQWt-w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pp2k22z8.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-08-18 13:30 GMT+01:00 Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>:
> I like that behavior because I frequently search for "some text" in
> prose, and then it allows me to find also the matches where the two
> words are wrapped around.
Me too, it's very useful in prose. I agree that it's not super useful
in code. But it's also not harmful enough in code that it should be
disabled in prose.
> But I think the `isearch-lax-whitespace' feature can still be improved:
> [...]
> I had expected that only space characters in the search string are
> replaced by `search-whitespace-regexp' but it seems that any whitespace
> character is replaced by it. I think this is not good.
I agree.
> And IMHO, it would be a good idea to disable lax-whitespace for the
> current search as soon as the search string contains a non-space
> whitespace character. I think if the user explicitly types C-j, C-i,
> etc. she's probably not interested in treating spaces as any-whitespace
> but wants to distinguish newlines from tabs and spaces.
I'm so sure this would be good, but I'm not sure it would be bad either.
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-17 5:04 bug#21277: 25.0.50; char-fold search is a screw, and I can't see how to disable Richard Stallman
2015-08-17 7:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-08-18 3:41 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-18 12:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-08-18 14:24 ` Drew Adams
2015-08-18 21:58 ` Artur Malabarba [this message]
2015-08-18 21:58 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-08-19 18:14 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-19 22:17 ` Juri Linkov
2015-08-18 3:41 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-19 22:08 ` Juri Linkov
2015-08-20 16:56 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-18 3:42 ` When was a change installed? Richard Stallman
2015-08-18 14:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-19 6:38 ` Steinar Bang
2015-08-19 18:16 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-18 14:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-08-19 1:19 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-19 4:28 ` David Kastrup
2015-08-19 18:18 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-20 2:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-19 1:19 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-19 7:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-08-19 18:18 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-19 9:22 ` Bastien
2015-08-19 9:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-08-19 9:57 ` Stephen Berman
2015-08-19 10:16 ` Damien Wyart
2015-08-18 14:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-08-19 1:24 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-17 19:02 ` bug#21277: 25.0.50; char-fold search is a screw, and I can't see how to disable Mark Oteiza
2015-08-18 22:29 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-08-19 22:02 ` Juri Linkov
2015-08-20 9:36 ` Artur Malabarba
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