GNU bug report logs - #8136
searching for multiple words in M-x customize window is broken

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Zachary Kanfer <zkanfer <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:05:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Zachary Kanfer <zkanfer <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: searching for multiple words in M-x customize window is broken
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:37:10 -0500

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This bug exists in Emacs built from the bzr source code, version GNU Emacs
24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) of 2011-02-27 on zck-desktop
Steps to reproduce:
1. M-x customize<ret>
2. Go to the search bar, and type in "grouping backslash", without quotes.
3. Press enter, and get the message that no results have been found.
4. Change the search query to "backslash", again without quotes, and press
enter. One result is found: "Font Lock Regexp Grouping Backslash", which
should be found for the previous search.

This behavior is exhibited for any query with multiple words.

Attached is a patch which splits the input string before passing it to
customize-apropos, which already handles lists of strings.

-Zachary Kanfer

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