Re: [External] : Re: Package cl is deprecated

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 5:10 AM Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > > `C-s (require . cl)'
> >
> > I tried again and it worked, as shown in the attachment.
> >
>
> > > Yes. `C-M-s' for this in *Help* for `C-h v load-history'.
> > >
> > > (require[
> > >  ]+[.][
> > >  ]+cl)
> >
> > Thank you for showing me this pattern. TBF, it seems to me that the
> > syntax of line spanning match pattern is very strange. It would be
> > nice if there were some explanation for how to build this pattern.
>
> See the Emacs manual, node `Lax Search'.  Depending on your
> value of option `search-whitespace-regexp' you can just
> type a space char to match one or more whitespace chars,
> including newline chars.  I you set it to "[
>
> ]+" (which corresponds to "[ \t\r\n]+" then you can just
> search with `C-s' for `(require . cl)'.  That will cross
> newlines.
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Lax-Search.html

Thank you very much for the information, but I still can't figure out
what's the meaning of `Lax' used here.

Regards
-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering
No. 473, Quannan West Street, Xindu District, Xingtai, Hebei province