GNU bug report logs - #21278
char-fold isearch: space and newline

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org

Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 05:05:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #44 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
 text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21278 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org, bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, larsi <at> gnus.org,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#21278: char-fold isearch: space and newline still broken
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 20:32:53 +0300

>> Building such mode-independent features on syntax properties
>> is IME asking for trouble.
>> Stefan, WDYT?
>
> Agreed.  I'd use something like [ \t] or [ \t\n] or even [\0-\s].

Seconded.  Everyone who wants to match a newline,
still needs to customize search-whitespace-regexp
to include \n, e.g. "\\(?:\\s-\\|\n\\)+", so an explicit
list of characters would be more deterministic.
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