RE: Search in filled text does not work correctly

[Drew Adams]

> But suppose you wanted to replace the phrase?  Then it looks 
> like incremental word search will not help, and you need the
> fancy regexp with the literal line feed character.
> 
> Given that in the short time I've been watching this list
> the issue has come up twice, does it make sense to call
> this a bug of sorts? It's a little disappointing that it's
> difficult to do something as straightforward as
> searching / replacing a phrase. It seems in search contexts 
> emacs should read a space as whitespace or feed, unless
> it's escaped or something.

The way to register an enhancement request is to use `M-x report-emacs-bug'.
(That's for enhancement requests, not just for bugs.)