GNU bug report logs - #17433
Emacs24 searching for multiple spaces

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Channell <paul.j.channell <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 17:44:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

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From: Paul Channell <paul.j.channell <at> gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#17433: Emacs24 searching for multiple spaces
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 19:45:18 -0600

On 05/07/2014 11:47 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Paul Channell wrote:
>
>> Emacs24 can't do incremental searches for multiple spaces, though
>> Emacs23 does it well.
> Perhaps you want:
>
> (setq search-whitespace-regexp nil)
I would like to search for a specified number of spaces, say 12 or 19 etc
and to do this while defining a macro to be applied many times. I set the
number of blanks while recording the macro.

Thanks!

Paul Channell
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