From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Searching for spaces Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 14:36:42 -0500 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400010036 8461 80.91.229.3 (13 May 2014 19:40:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 19:40:36 +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 May 13 21:40:25 2014 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 1WkIYr-00077d-2C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 21:40:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47477 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkIYq-00048F-Hl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 15:40:24 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news6 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pb3a5861e3367bf4d494045168b30fff342af55c8a8f9a1c9.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Received-Bytes: 1902 X-Received-Body-CRC: 328083608 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205363 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:97630 Archived-At: > 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----- > > 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