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Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?
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Juri Linkov |
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Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch? |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:27:34 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> It is now possible to change the variable `search-whitespace-regexp' and
> give it a cons cell value, which specifies different behaviors for
> ordinary and regexp isearch.
I think a cons cell is an unsuitable data structure for this customization.
It has no room for extension. For example, it makes sense to add
a value for word search that currently is hard-coded in `word-search-regexp'
as "\\W+", but there is no clean way to add it to this user option.
A better approach is to have two separate user options
for ordinary and regexp search whitespace like:
(defcustom search-whitespace-regexp "\\s-+"
...
(defcustom re-search-whitespace-regexp search-whitespace-regexp
...
`re-search-whitespace-regexp' inheriting its default value
from `search-whitespace-regexp' will provide backward-compatibility
for users who already customized the old variable.
Then later a new user option could be easily added for `word-search-regexp'
like:
(defcustom word-search-whitespace-regexp "\\W+"
...
Also I'm concerned about `re-search-forward' being slower than
`search-forward' for plain strings. Could it be optimized
to use `search-forward' instead of `re-search-backward'
in non-regexp isearch at least in these three cases:
1. When there are no spaces in the search string;
2. When the user typed `C-q SPC';
3. When the user option `search-whitespace-regexp' is nil?
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?, (continued)
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?, Juri Linkov, 2012/08/29
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?, Chong Yidong, 2012/08/30
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?, Chong Yidong, 2012/08/30
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?, Juri Linkov, 2012/08/30
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?, Stefan Monnier, 2012/08/30
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?, Chong Yidong, 2012/08/29
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?, Juri Linkov, 2012/08/29
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?, Stefan Monnier, 2012/08/29
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?, Dani Moncayo, 2012/08/29
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?, Juri Linkov, 2012/08/29
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?, Chong Yidong, 2012/08/29
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?, Juri Linkov, 2012/08/29
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?, Chong Yidong, 2012/08/30
- Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?, Juri Linkov, 2012/08/30