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still can't search for two spaces

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22494 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mbork <at> mbork.pl, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: bug#22494: still can't search for two spaces
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 12:20:29 +0100

Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:

>   > What is in the search string is a search pattern.  How it is
>   > interpreted is the question.
>
> Right.  And I am proposing a way to interpret part of it.  Namely, 
> two spaces in a row means to match two spaces in the buffer.

But if you isearch-yank them they should be normalized so that they
continue to do lax matching.

Andreas.

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