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Re: does emacs support incremental searching for partial matches?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: does emacs support incremental searching for partial matches?
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:43:32 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> (defconst my-isearch-re "[^\n\s\t]*?")
> or (defconst my-isearch-re "\\S *?")
> I'm not sure which is clearer.

Many languages set \n to have syntax "close comment" rather than
"space", in which case \S- does not exclude \n.


        Stefan



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