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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Message #82 received at 58992 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 58992 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58992: 28.2; "lax space matching" no longer works
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 04:38:05 +0100

On 2022-11-04 03:29:50 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > In which version of Emacs, and with what value of
> > search-whitespace-regexp?
> 
> Both 27.1 and 28.2 (Debian for both), with search-whitespace-regexp
> set to "\\s-+". For Texinfo, it is more common to search in the
> normal text (rather than comments), since this is the significant
> content, so the newline character should be regarded as whitespace.

This is worse: even when changing search-whitespace-regexp to
include the newline character, this doesn't work in Texinfo!

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