Re: lax whitespace search

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:08:05 -0500
> 
> With the following text in Rmail or in a Mail buffer,
> 
>   > Richard, this problem was fixed many moons ago.  I wonder why you
>   > still keep mentioning it.  It makes me think that maybe I don't
>   > understand the problem you are talking about.  Could you describe a
>   > recipe for reproducing it, and if you can reproduce it in your current
>   > Emacs, say when you updated the sources from the repository?
> 
> with point at the start of it, I type C-s LFD LFD and it matches the spaces
> after "ago.".

I don't have that problem, neither on master nor on the emacs-25
branch.

> I fetchd the sources on Nov 14.

>From master or from emacs-25?  I tried an emacs-25 branch build I had
from Nov 16, and there was no such problem there, either.

Could it be that you have some stale Lisp files somewhere?  Does
list-load-path-shadows tell anything of significance?