On 1 Dec 2015 3:37 pm, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> Maybe we should add a note that, although lax-whitespace matching is
> not supported with word search, it is also not needed, because spaces
> between words are ignored anyway?

Yes. We shouldn't say it can't do lax-whitespace, cause the reality is that it can't NOT do lax-whitespace.

We can either say nothing, or say something like:
The word search commands don't perform character folding and are not affected by lax whitespace matching (since they ignore the spaces between words anyway, @pxref{Lax Search}).