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RE: Possible misleading example in `Incremental Search' Info node
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Possible misleading example in `Incremental Search' Info node |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Aug 2016 07:21:06 -0700 (PDT) |
> I was reading the _Incremental_Search_ Info node in the Emacs manual.
> In "15.1.4 Special Input for Incremental Search", found via
>
> (info "(emacs)Special Isearch")
>
> the second paragraph discusses "lax space matching", and its second and
> third sentences read as follows in my version of Emacs:
>
> Hence, 'foo bar' matches 'foo bar', 'foo bar', 'foo bar', and so on
> (but not 'foobar'). More precisely, Emacs matches each sequence of
> space characters in the search string to a regular expression
> specified by the variable 'search-whitespace-regexp'.
>
> From my understanding of that full paragraph, the following illustrates
> the default behaviour. Suppose that we have the text
>
> foobar
> foo bar
> foo bar
> foo bar
Good catch. I've reported that regression (using `M-x report-emacs-bug')
as bug #24151.
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24151