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bug#58992: 28.2; "lax space matching" no longer works


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#58992: 28.2; "lax space matching" no longer works
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 20:36:45 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> Okay, this is because of:
>
> commit 74d091a0a665da5dc01989d1b06a61ee21b975b2
> Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date:   Fri Sep 10 12:27:28 2021 +0200
>
>     Change the default value of search-whitespace-regexp
>
>     * lisp/isearch.el (search-whitespace-regexp): Change the default
>     to always exclude newlines from the set (bug#21278).  It used to
>     be mode-dependent whether newlines were included or not, and this
>     was confusing as a user interface.
>
> which changed the default value of search-whitespace-regexp from "\\s-+" to
> "[ \t]".

"\\s-+" in many modes includes newlines, so the default could include
explicit newlines as well that it matched in some modes until Emacs 28.





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