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Re: spaces in isearch
From: |
Harald Maier |
Subject: |
Re: spaces in isearch |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:37:27 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
> Harald Maier <address@hidden> writes:
>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 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