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still can't search for two spaces

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Message #71 received at 22494 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nicolas Richard <nrichard <at> ulb.ac.be>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: mbork <at> mbork.pl, rms <at> gnu.org, 22494 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 John Wiegley <johnw <at> gnu.org>, jidanni <at> jidanni.org,
 Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#22494: still can't search for two spaces
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:44:07 +0100

John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:
>
>> Heeding what is in the search string means nothing - or anything.
>
> I don't know why you're saying this Drew.
>
> If the user types something into the search string, and exactly that something
> is present in the buffer, Emacs should locate it before any "lax" variant.

That looks like setting lax-ws to nil by default but turning it on
automatically if there's no match. One question is which one(s) of those
lax-foo options should be turned on first ?

-- 
Nicolas

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