bug#22494: still can't search for two spaces

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-01-30, at 23:28, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

>>   > > I still can't search for two spaces with C-s SPC SPC.
>>   > > It still just sits on the first match for single space.
>> 
>>   > Crystal ball says you didn't read the manual, which explains that you
>>   > need to type M-s SPC after C-s to get what you want (which is literal
>>   > space matching).
>> 
>> This is a bug.  When the user types SPC SPC in a search string,
>> person clearly wants to search for two spaces.  It should do that.
>
> +1

+1

> And then what if the user made a mistake typing that second SPC
> char - i.e., didn't really mean to search literally for multiple
> whitespace chars?  It won't be enough to just delete the second
> SPC char (but the user might try that).

Why couldn't it be enough?

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University