Re: search-whitespace-regexp

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Wait.  That doesn't make any sense.  I haven't seen *anyone* ask for plain
>> search to treat spaces as "just one SPC char".  AFAICT everybody is happy
>> with the behavior where a space in the search text is interpreted as "any
>> sequence of blank chars".

> FWIW, there are definitely cases where I get pissed at regexp-search
> for doing that -- it's not always the case that one is just searching
> for words that are separated by "some whitespace", sometimes the
> actual whitespace matters.

Right: in *regexp* search.


        Stefan