Re: search-whitespace-regexp

[Stefan Monnier]

>       AFAICT everybody is happy
>     with the behavior where a space in the search text is interpreted as "any
>     sequence of blank chars".

> Do you mean, everyone would be happy if a space in string search text
> were interpreted that way?

Yes.  Especially if the regexp-search (in contrast) doesn't use such magic.
This way, you can easily turn off the magic (by using regexp-search) for
those rare cases where you really want to match "just one space".


        Stefan