From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 22 - regular-expression isearch on spaces extremely lenient Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 08:51:25 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <2cd46e7f0604281356i582388e2kef07922b6b6a9a3a@mail.gmail.com> <87lktos3cl.fsf@blarg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146495191 2238 80.91.229.2 (1 May 2006 14:53:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 14:53:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 01 16:53:10 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FaZlm-0007io-LO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 16:53:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FaZlm-0000BF-9M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 10:53:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FaZlH-00088L-D4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 10:52:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FaZlF-000855-IC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 10:52:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FaZlF-00084f-CX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 10:52:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FaZp4-00041y-I4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 10:56:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FaZl2-0007ad-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 16:52:16 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 May 2006 16:52:16 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 May 2006 16:52:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) In-Reply-To: <87lktos3cl.fsf@blarg.net> 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53729 gmane.emacs.help:34739 Archived-At: Eric Hanchrow wrote: >>>>>> "Drew" == Drew Adams writes: > > Drew> The question then becomes how to toggle this > Drew> space-means-whitespace searching? > > I haven't the slightest idea how to toggle it, which of course is the > important question. But I do have an idea: for regexp searches, if > while I'm typing my regexp, and I type a space, and this feature is > on, it'd be lovely if Emacs would simply insert the appropriate regexp > for whitespace -- such as \s-+ -- into the mini-buffer. That way I > will learn a bit more about regexps. Excellent suggestion! -- Kevin Rodgers