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Replace expressions: enhance functionality when searching in filled paragraphs

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From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
To: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 10885 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10885: Replace expressions: enhance functionality when searching in filled paragraphs
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:04:55 +0100

> Would it make sense for replace-regexp/query-replace-regexp (and other
> commands
> that read regexps from the user) to respect search-whitespace-regexp, just
> like
> isearch?

Good question.

Quote from the docstring of `isearch-forward-regexp':

 In regexp incremental searches, a space or spaces normally matches
 any whitespace (the variable `search-whitespace-regexp' controls
 precisely what that means).  If you want to search for a literal space
 and nothing else, enter C-q SPC.

Does anyone knows why `query-replace-regexp' don't behave that way too?

I think it should, i.e., `query-replace-regexp' should find the same
matches that `isearch-forward-regexp' would find with the same search
regexp.


-- 
Dani Moncayo

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