GNU bug report logs - #58992
28.2; "lax space matching" no longer works

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>

Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 16:54:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.2

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 58992 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58992: 28.2; "lax space matching" no longer works
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.
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