Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?

[Chong Yidong]

Bastien <address@hidden> writes:

> Davis Herring <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> It's a feature, but I don't remember how to change it at the moment.
>> `search-spaces-regexp' is almost it.
>
> Yep -- it's ̀search-whitespace-regexp'.

FWIW, I've long been of the opinion that this feature is exactly
backward.  The `search-whitespace-regexp' whitespace matching feature
should apply to ordinary incremental search, and it should *not* apply
to regexp incremental search.