Subject: bug#58992: 28.2; "lax space matching" no longer works

From: Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:49:37 +0000

>
> I tested with "emacs -Q", and I've just tested again. I confirm the 
> behavior I could see: a newline character is matched.  That's Debian's 
> package emacs-gtk 1:27.1+1-3.1+b1.
>

Are you really sure?  I just tested this with that same version of Emacs 
(Debian package emacs-gtk 1:27.1+1-3.1+b1), and

emacs -Q
ab RET bc RET ab SPC cd
M-<
C-s b SPC c

only matches the third line.