From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: emacs 22 - regular-expression isearch on spacesextremely lenient Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 11:44:16 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146509076 18501 80.91.229.2 (1 May 2006 18:44:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 18:44:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 01 20:44:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FadNq-0002y3-Ij for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 20:44:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FadNp-0002eR-PA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 14:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FadNd-0002eF-UK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 14:44:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FadNc-0002dw-GN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 14:44:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FadNc-0002dt-98 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 14:44:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.228] (helo=agminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1FadRU-0008Qc-32 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 14:48:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.50]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k41IiI2I013542 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 13:44:18 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dradams-lap.us.oracle.com [130.35.177.126]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id k41IiGjW002911 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 12:44:17 -0600 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34744 Archived-At: > FWIW, I agree with Miles on this - this is a misfeature, if turned on by > default. It should be off by default, and you should be able to turn it on > via a simple toggle during incremental search (regexp or plain). who's miles? Miles Bader. He wrote this in reply to your original post: "Ken Manheimer" writes: > i'm starting to realize that this behavior has been in emacs 22 for at > least a while, and is not in emacs 21. can anyone tell me whether or > not it's deliberate, and what the rationale is? I'm pretty sure it's deliberate, though I can't give a good rationale for it (I think it's stupid and annoying behavior), nor find a NEWS entry for it.... However I recall people talking about it on emacs-devel as if it were a feature. ---------------- (i guess it's too late to propose inverting the mode of the feature on emacs-devel? i'd just copy this posting over there, asking if it's worth reopening the discussion. i wouldn't want to do that, though, if the discussion ended on a conclusive pronouncement that even dismissed revisiting in the event of complaints...) I would say to go ahead and say what you think to emacs-devel. If someone finds that inappropriate, s?he will say so.