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24.3.50; `C-w' from Isearch should translate newlines to spaces

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 13480 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
 Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 'Dani Moncayo' <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#13480: 24.3.50; `C-w' from Isearch should translate
 newlines to spaces
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 14:28:35 +0200

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

Reading this bug report, it seems like everybody agrees that yanking a
text containing newlines in `C-s C-y' should have the match also match
other whitespace (if laxness is enabled).  There was disagreement
whether the isearch prompt in these cases should be saying "foo^Jbar" or
"foo bar" -- the former would be difficult to implement, while the
latter isn't displaying exactly what the user yanked.

I think displaying "foo bar" makes the most sense, because we're in a
lax search.  And I think one of the patches Juri prepared implemented
this, so I think we should just go ahead and push that change (possibly
behind a user option).  Juri?

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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