From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Searching for space fails Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:05:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87k2sj4vgw.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440522382 20502 80.91.229.3 (25 Aug 2015 17:06:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:06:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 25 19:06:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUHfl-0004A8-0q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:06:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33620 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUHfk-0004hF-IH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:06:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58297) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUHfZ-0004h8-FQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:05:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUHfV-0005oY-BZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:05:57 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60339) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUHfV-0005j2-4v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:05:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUHfN-0003qK-7o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:05:45 +0200 Original-Received: from 169.15.136.127 ([169.15.136.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:05:45 +0200 Original-Received: from dboyd2 by 169.15.136.127 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:05:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 169.15.136.127 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2rzExql15KApDRsogRGQJPylDrI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106835 Archived-At: "Loris Bennett" writes: > Hi, > > Today I found that I was unable to search for spaces with isearch. It > turns out that 'search-whitespace-regexp' was set to 'nil' rather than > the default '\s-+'. > > As I am pretty sure I didn't customise the variable myself, does anyone > know how it might have been changed? > > Cheers, > > Loris Stray cosmic radiation. Dave