Re: spaces in isearch

[Harald Maier]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> I wrote these changes to isearch.el that take advantage of the new
> search feature I just installed.  It fixes the bug, but has a
> drawback: C-q SPC would no longer work as a way to search for a
> literal space.  One would need to write [ ].  This is actually more
> logical, but some users might be accustomed to C-q SPC.  What do
> people think?

If I now use '^ +A' in an interactive regexp search then emacs hangs
in the minibuffer. In a version from October 17 it doesn't happen.

To reproduce this use:

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| $ emacs -Q
| M-x man bash
| C-u C-s ^ +A
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Harald