Re: spaces in isearch

[Harald Maier <harald@maierh.de>]

Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:

> Harald Maier <harald@maierh.de> writes:
>> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>>> I wrote these changes to isearch.el that take advantage of the new
>>> search feature I just installed.  It fixes the bug, but has a
>>> drawback: C-q SPC would no longer work as a way to search for a
>>> literal space.  One would need to write [ ].  This is actually more
>>> logical, but some users might be accustomed to C-q SPC.  What do
>>> people think?
>>
>> If I now use '^ +A' in an interactive regexp search then emacs hangs
>> in the minibuffer. In a version from October 17 it doesn't happen.
>

> Are you sure this didn't happen before October 17?  

I tried it again and there both constructs seem to work really fine:
'^ A' and '^ +A'. I don't know which change afterwards has broken the
latter.

> From what I see, quite contrary: Richard's changes were intended to
> fix the same bug as you reported.  But they are not even installed
> to CVS (though it's strange that there is a ChangeLog entry already
> for uninstalled change).  So you can't see the effect of changes in
> isearch.el unless you applied the proposed patch to your local
> source tree.

I saw the problem too by accident and so I did my comments without
verifying whether Richard has already installed the patch. Sorry for
the noice.

Harald