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

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Message #67 received at 21278 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21278 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org, bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com,
 juri <at> linkov.net, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#21278: char-fold isearch: space and newline still broken
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 14:12:45 +0200

Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com> 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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