Subject: Re: bug#21278: char-fold isearch: space and newline still broken

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 14:12:45 +0200

Augusto Stoffel <[email-masked]> writes:

> For the record, search-whitespace-regexp could have more useful values
> suggested in customize.  I can think of:
>
> - not too lax: "[ \\t]+"
> - match across lines: "[ \\t\\n]+"
> - eat punctuation: "\\W+"
> - fuzzy: ".*?"

I'm thing that trying to assign names to "[ \t]+" as "not too lax" will
just be more confusing than saying "tabs and spaces", and the same goes
for the other alternatives, too.

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