Re: Interpretation of a space in regexp isearch?

[Dmitry Gutov]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> 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 =CC=80search-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.

I think that would make more sense, too.