From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Whitespace search and regex.c Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:03:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87y8gq9da4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101503250 10410 80.91.229.6 (26 Nov 2004 21:07:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 26 22:07:26 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CXnJO-0001xH-00 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 22:07:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CXnSc-00034e-Os for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:16:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CXnRo-0002fV-6M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:16:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CXnRm-0002ek-Pj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:16:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CXnRm-0002eU-Hv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:16:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CXnID-0001FZ-Ev for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:06:13 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CXnG2-0003Ur-Pb; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:03:58 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: <87y8gq9da4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:20:50 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30408 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30408 > It is for the sake of user-level search features that > want a series of SPCs to stand for some broader kind of whitespace. I'm afraid that doesn't tell me really what it is for. I.e. why is it implemented this way rather than some other way? What was the precise goal? This was the easiest way I could find to do it reliably. It avoids the need to write other code to parse a regexp. I did not want to do that; I figured it would be a pain.