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bug#8688: 23.2; search-whitespace-regexp not working as documented
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Worik Stanton |
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bug#8688: 23.2; search-whitespace-regexp not working as documented |
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Thu, 19 May 2011 07:29:54 +1200 |
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On 18/05/11 19:15, Glenn Morris wrote:
Worik Stanton wrote:
I set search-whitespace-regexp to [ \t\r\n]+ in customise as suggested
in the documentation but when I do a isearch-forward-regexp the space
character only matches a literal space.
'(search-whitespace-regexp "[ \\t\\r\\n]+"))
is the line from .emacs
I think you're being confused by the way customize treats regexps (it
confuses me as well; I'm not sure it is helpful). There is extra
escaping in the setting of search-whitespace-regexp that is written to
your .emacs. It should be:
'(search-whitespace-regexp "[ \t\r\n]+"))
The doc of search-whitespace-regexp says:
In the Customization buffer, that is `[' followed by a space,
a tab, a carriage return (control-M), a newline, and `]+'
If you literally use that input, does it work?
Yes. I copied the string direct from the documentation. Perhaps this
is a bug in the documentation?
Also I uncovered another bug, I guess it could be described as
aesthetic. I changed the "custom-set-variables" command to...
(custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
'(delete-by-moving-to-trash t)
'(save-place t nil (saveplace))
'(search-whitespace-regexp "[ \t\r\n]+"))
And executed it. (regex-search works as expected now).
But C-h v search-whitespace-regexp says it is set to...
search-whitespace-regexp's value is "[ ^M\n]+"
I was about to report that the custom-set-variables command did not work...
Thanks for your help, all the serious problems are solved.
cheers
Worik
Oh, it's not possible to type a TAB, or ctrl-M, or newline, in a custom
field, since it moves you out of the editable field... This is even more
confusing.