This bug exists in Emacs built from the bzr source code, version GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) of 2011-02-27 on zck-desktop<br>Steps to reproduce:<br>1. M-x customize&lt;ret&gt;<br>2. Go to the search bar, and type in &quot;grouping backslash&quot;, without quotes.<br>


3. Press enter, and get the message that no results have been found.<br>4. Change the search query to &quot;backslash&quot;, again without quotes, and press enter. One result is found: &quot;Font Lock Regexp Grouping Backslash&quot;, which should be found for the previous search.<br>


<br>This behavior is exhibited for any query with multiple words.<br><br>Attached is a patch which splits the input string before passing it to customize-apropos, which already handles lists of strings.<br><br>-Zachary Kanfer<br>