bug#17433: Emacs24 searching for multiple spaces

[Glenn Morris]

(Please keep the debbugs address cc'd)

Paul Channell wrote:

>> (setq search-whitespace-regexp nil)
>
> I would like to search for a specified number of spaces, say 12 or 19 etc
> and to do this while defining a macro to be applied many times. I set the
> number of blanks while recording the macro.

I believe setting search-whitespace-regexp to nil will allow you to do that.