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From: | Chong Yidong |
Subject: | Re: query-replace-regexp vs. following blanks highlighting |
Date: | Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:56:08 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
Chris Moore <address@hidden> writes: >> This is a new feature in Emacs 22. Use "^[ ]" if you want to >> highlight exactly one space. > > What's the rationale for this feature? I thought the point of > highlighting was to show which parts of the buffer match the regular > expression being searched for, which is useful. What is the use of > showing parts which don't match as well? I brought up this issue long ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-02/msg00174.html
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