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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:26:01 +0200

Augusto Stoffel <[email-masked]> writes:

>>> - 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.
>
> Right, more serious names could be:
>
> 1. Tabs and spaces
> 2. Tabs, spaces and line breaks

OK, added.

> 3. Whitespace and punctuation

That has the same problem as this bug report -- it uses a syntax class.
(And it doesn't seem to have much to do with whitespace, which is what
this variable is about.

> 4. Any sequence of characters (fuzzy)

That doesn't seem to have anything to do with whitespace.

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