GNU bug report logs - #22494
still can't search for two spaces

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 06:35:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: ??? Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 22494 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eliz <at> gnu.org, mbork <at> mbork.pl, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#22494: still can't search for two spaces
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:57:45 -0800 (PST)
> All I know is an Auntie Nelda-like person (me) typed those two spaces
> and expected them to match. I don't know about all that other stuff.

I, at least, have agreed with you and your Auntie Nelda.
And I think that Richard has also agreed about this.

FWIW, I said so (in emacs-devel <at> gnu.org) before Isearch was changed
to provide lax whitespace search as a possibility, and I opposed
(unsuccessfully) making it the default behavior.

For me, as for your Auntie Nelda also, it seems, literal search is
clearest as a default behavior for C-s.  I disagree that C-s should
default to a "handy", Emacs-knows-what-you-really-want/need behavior.




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