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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch? |
Date: | Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:25:08 +0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 |
On 16.08.2012 3:21, Drew Adams wrote:
On the flip side, I've seen many times that less-technical users can be sloppy with the amount of whitespace between words. If the non-regexp version is supposed to be easy to use, then `search-whitespace-regexp' behavior might be quite useful there.Less-technical users are often used to less-technical editors that do NOT try to be so clever (er, that is, "easy to use").
Incremental search in Emacs is different enough from the search function in simple editors, I think, that doing things the same way is not very valuable.
Not every search (or even most searches?) by less-technical users is intended to ignore additional whitespace. Whitespace can matter to less-technical users too. And less-technical does not necessarily mean more sloppy, including about whitespace between words.
Like I said, the amount of false positives is, in my experience, negligible. But it can prevent some false negatives, in some situations, for certain user expectations.
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