From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: search-whitespace-regexp Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:07:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1982.220.255.95.17.1107526353.squirrel@220.255.95.17> <35379.203.116.59.24.1107655186.squirrel@203.116.59.24> <87pszdslu1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107810828 5983 80.91.229.2 (7 Feb 2005 21:13:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 21:13:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 07 22:13:48 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyGCI-00014v-Ge for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:13:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyGQU-00056T-OA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:28:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyGPB-0004dz-Q5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:26:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyGP1-0004aB-97 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:26:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyGP0-0004YK-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:26:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CyG6m-00027E-Vp; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:07:49 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FFB18282B3; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:07:48 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15AA84AC137; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:07:45 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 00E4E4C217; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:07:44 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:51:35 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.783, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.12, BAYES_00 -4.90) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33044 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33044 > AFAICT everybody is happy > with the behavior where a space in the search text is interpreted as "any > sequence of blank chars". > Do you mean, everyone would be happy if a space in string search text > were interpreted that way? Yes. Especially if the regexp-search (in contrast) doesn't use such magic. This way, you can easily turn off the magic (by using regexp-search) for those rare cases where you really want to match "just one space". Stefan