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RE: Possible misleading example in `Incremental Search' Info node


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: Possible misleading example in `Incremental Search' Info node
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 07:21:06 -0700 (PDT)

> I was reading the _Incremental_Search_ Info node in the Emacs manual.
> In "15.1.4 Special Input for Incremental Search", found via
> 
>     (info "(emacs)Special Isearch")
> 
> the second paragraph discusses "lax space matching", and its second and
> third sentences read as follows in my version of Emacs:
> 
>     Hence, 'foo bar' matches 'foo bar', 'foo bar', 'foo bar', and so on
>     (but not 'foobar').  More precisely, Emacs matches each sequence of
>     space characters in the search string to a regular expression
>     specified by the variable 'search-whitespace-regexp'.
> 
> From my understanding of that full paragraph, the following illustrates
> the default behaviour.  Suppose that we have the text
> 
> foobar
> foo bar
> foo  bar
> foo   bar

Good catch.  I've reported that regression (using `M-x report-emacs-bug')
as bug #24151.

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24151



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