* Searching for spaces
@ 2014-05-12 19:17 Gary Hodges (NOAA Affiliate)
2014-05-12 19:29 ` Drew Adams
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From: Gary Hodges (NOAA Affiliate) @ 2014-05-12 19:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Current computer: Kubuntu 14.04 and emacs 24.3.1
Previous computer: Kubuntu 12.04 and emacs 23.3.1
With the new machine I'm no longer able to search for consecutive
spaces. Specifically, I regularly want to search for 5 consecutive
spaces as part of a keyboard macro. The beginning of that macro is as
follows:
C-x-(, C-s-<space>-<space>-<space>-<space>-<space>
The above would locate each instance of 5 consecutive spaces. This is
no longer the case. How can I get the old behavior back?
Thank you,
Gary
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* RE: Searching for spaces
2014-05-12 19:17 Searching for spaces Gary Hodges (NOAA Affiliate)
@ 2014-05-12 19:29 ` Drew Adams
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From: Drew Adams @ 2014-05-12 19:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Gary Hodges (NOAA Affiliate), help-gnu-emacs
> C-x-(, C-s-<space>-<space>-<space>-<space>-<space>
>
> The above would locate each instance of 5 consecutive spaces.
> This is no longer the case. How can I get the old behavior back?
M-x customize-option isearch-lax-whitespace
M-x customize-option isearch-regexp-lax-whitespace
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* Re: Searching for spaces
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@ 2014-05-13 19:36 ` B. T. Raven
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From: B. T. Raven @ 2014-05-13 19:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> Current computer: Kubuntu 14.04 and emacs 24.3.1
> Previous computer: Kubuntu 12.04 and emacs 23.3.1
>
> With the new machine I'm no longer able to search for consecutive
> spaces. Specifically, I regularly want to search for 5 consecutive
> spaces as part of a keyboard macro. The beginning of that macro is as
> follows:
>
> C-x-(, C-s-<space>-<space>-<space>-<space>-<space>
>
> The above would locate each instance of 5 consecutive spaces. This is
> no longer the case. How can I get the old behavior back?
>
> Thank you,
> Gary
>
Oops, sent to Gary only (reply instead of followup)
I guess you have to fall back to 23.3 I see the same behavior even with
C-s (without using a macro). Repeated invocations of C-s moves cursor to
the next space, not the next string of 5 spaces. Btw, I don't think you
need that comma after the open paren. Maybe you saw the comma when you
queried with C-h k:
"
C-x ( runs the command kmacro-start-macro, which is an interactive
autoloaded compiled Lisp function in `kmacro.el'.
It is bound to C-x (, C-x C-k C-s, C-x C-k s.
"
Ed
Btw, am on w32 and w64
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* Re: Searching for spaces
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@ 2014-05-13 19:52 ` B. T. Raven
2014-05-13 20:31 ` Drew Adams
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From: B. T. Raven @ 2014-05-13 19:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
>> C-x-(, C-s-<space>-<space>-<space>-<space>-<space>
>>
>> The above would locate each instance of 5 consecutive spaces.
>> This is no longer the case. How can I get the old behavior back?
>
> M-x customize-option isearch-lax-whitespace
>
> M-x customize-option isearch-regexp-lax-whitespace
>
Drew:
Are these built in? I don't find them on 24.3 w64
Thanks,
Ed
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* RE: Searching for spaces
2014-05-13 19:52 ` B. T. Raven
@ 2014-05-13 20:31 ` Drew Adams
2014-05-14 0:20 ` Robert Thorpe
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From: Drew Adams @ 2014-05-13 20:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: B. T. Raven, help-gnu-emacs
> >> C-x-(, C-s-<space>-<space>-<space>-<space>-<space>
> >>
> >> The above would locate each instance of 5 consecutive spaces.
> >> This is no longer the case. How can I get the old behavior back?
> >
> > M-x customize-option isearch-lax-whitespace
> > M-x customize-option isearch-regexp-lax-whitespace
>
> Drew: Are these built in? I don't find them on 24.3 w64
Yes, in isearch.el, for Emacs 24.3. But I was wrong about them
being user options. They are defvars, so you could use defvar
or setq to change their values.
But it is generally better to use command
`isearch-toggle-lax-whitespace', which is bound to `M-s SPC' during
Isearch.
You can, however, set those variables in your init file the way you
want them to be at the outset.
(And you can customize option `search-whitespace-regexp'.)
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* Re: Searching for spaces
2014-05-13 20:31 ` Drew Adams
@ 2014-05-14 0:20 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-05-28 22:37 ` Gary Hodges (NOAA Affiliate)
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From: Robert Thorpe @ 2014-05-14 0:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: btraven, help-gnu-emacs
> (And you can customize option `search-whitespace-regexp'.)
Yes manual says that (setq search-whitespace-regexp nil) will prevent
whitespace being matched in a clever way. I don't think there's any
need to modify the other ones.
See this node for more:
"File: emacs.info, Node: Special Isearch, Next: Isearch Yank, Prev:
Error in Isearch, Up: Incremental Search"
BR,
Robert Thorpe
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* Re: Searching for spaces
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@ 2014-05-16 17:37 ` B. T. Raven
2014-05-16 21:38 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: B. T. Raven @ 2014-05-16 17:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Thanks Drew and Robert. I just added the (setq form below to my .emacs
and now 24.3 acts like 23.3. I guess a non-nil regexp is more useful
here at least for programmers.
Ed
>> (And you can customize option `search-whitespace-regexp'.)
>
> Yes manual says that (setq search-whitespace-regexp nil) will prevent
> whitespace being matched in a clever way. I don't think there's any
> need to modify the other ones.
>
> See this node for more:
> "File: emacs.info, Node: Special Isearch, Next: Isearch Yank, Prev:
> Error in Isearch, Up: Incremental Search"
>
> BR,
> Robert Thorpe
>
>
>
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* Re: Searching for spaces
2014-05-16 17:37 ` B. T. Raven
@ 2014-05-16 21:38 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2014-05-16 21:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> Thanks Drew and Robert. I just added the (setq form below to my .emacs
> and now 24.3 acts like 23.3. I guess a non-nil regexp is more useful
> here at least for programmers.
BTW, while SPC is treated specially in such searches (so it matches
more than a single space), I seem to remember agreeing that it's a bug
for SPC SPC SPC to match less than 3 spaces.
Not sure if we did fix the bug, tho, but if you try 24.3.91 you might
find that this is fixed.
Stefan
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* Re: Searching for spaces
2014-05-14 0:20 ` Robert Thorpe
@ 2014-05-28 22:37 ` Gary Hodges (NOAA Affiliate)
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From: Gary Hodges (NOAA Affiliate) @ 2014-05-28 22:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Robert Thorpe, Drew Adams; +Cc: btraven, help-gnu-emacs
Hey guys. Today was the first chance I had to go through the
suggestions to my post about searching for spaces. I added "(setq
search-whitespace-regexp nil)" to my .emacs file and I'm right where I
want to be. Thank you.
Gary
On 05/13/2014 06:20 PM, Robert Thorpe wrote:
>> (And you can customize option `search-whitespace-regexp'.)
>
> Yes manual says that (setq search-whitespace-regexp nil) will prevent
> whitespace being matched in a clever way. I don't think there's any
> need to modify the other ones.
>
> See this node for more:
> "File: emacs.info, Node: Special Isearch, Next: Isearch Yank, Prev:
> Error in Isearch, Up: Incremental Search"
>
> BR,
> Robert Thorpe
>
>
>
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