Re: Why does "non-breaking space" have syntax "punctuation"?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2018-08-13, at 08:59, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> On August 13, 2018 8:26:19 AM GMT+03:00, Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>>
>> On 2018-08-13, at 04:27, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> >> From: Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
>> >> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 22:05:12 +0200
>> >>
>> >> I'd report a bug, but I'd like to ask here first - maybe it's by
>> design?
>> >
>> > What syntax did you expect it to have?
>>
>> Whitespace, of course.  What else?
>>
>> Best,
>
> See the comment on line 524 of characters.el.

Thanks, so I know that it's by design.  Now the question is: _why_?

Use case: when writing in a natural language and searching for e.g. two
words which might or might not have a nbsp between them, it would be
intuitive/nice to be able to say [[:space:]].

Best,

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