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Re: Possible misleading example in `Incremental Search' Info node
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Possible misleading example in `Incremental Search' Info node |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 18:01:59 +0300 |
> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 07:21:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> > 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
This was already reported some time ago and is fixed in the 25.1
release candidate.