bug#51020: 28.0.60; [PATCH] Update documentation of search-whitespace-regexp

bug#51020: 28.0.60; [PATCH] Update documentation of search-whitespace-regexp

[Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

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The documentation of search-whitespace-regexp mentions that the default
value depends on the major mode (\s-), but in Emacs 28 it was updated to
only match tabs and spaces explicitly.  The attached patch corrects the
documentation.

Thanks.


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From 997f71fadefc6a5440b2e674caa5434f731b8bcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20Mart=C3=ADn?= <mardani29@yahoo.es>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 00:20:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update documentation of search-whitespace-regexp

* doc/emacs/search.texi (Lax Search): Update the documentation about
the default value of search-whitespace-regexp, as it is now
independent of the major mode's syntax table.
---
 doc/emacs/search.texi | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/emacs/search.texi b/doc/emacs/search.texi
index 8a101f1150..761161be1c 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/search.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/search.texi
@@ -1332,9 +1332,8 @@ Lax Search
 search string to a regular expression specified by the variable
 @code{search-whitespace-regexp}.  For example, to make spaces match
 sequences of newlines as well as spaces, set it to
-@samp{"[[:space:]\n]+"}.  The default value of this variable depends
-on the buffer's major mode; most major modes classify spaces, tabs,
-and formfeed characters as whitespace.
+@samp{"[[:space:]\n]+"}.  The default value of this variable considers
+any sequence of spaces and tab characters as whitespace.
 
   If you want whitespace characters to match exactly, you can turn lax
 space matching off by typing @kbd{M-s @key{SPC}}
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bug#51020: 28.0.60; [PATCH] Update documentation of search-whitespace-regexp

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:

> The documentation of search-whitespace-regexp mentions that the default
> value depends on the major mode (\s-), but in Emacs 28 it was updated to
> only match tabs and spaces explicitly.  The attached patch corrects the
> documentation.

Thanks; pushed to emacs-28.

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