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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2005-09-25 23:57:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2005-09-25 23:57:10 +0000 |
| commit | c283cff54cba36a5eabd43da4444d9da9d0aa721 (patch) | |
| tree | c051969e0bd71c2dd762e140dd9329a589402787 /man/search.texi | |
| parent | 9867523c82ffbaea5bd02a8b98f9e1844c8c7496 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-c283cff54cba36a5eabd43da4444d9da9d0aa721.tar.gz | |
(Regexp Search): Doc search-whitespace-regexp.
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diff --git a/man/search.texi b/man/search.texi index b252e9c7c8c..3c9e439e76d 100644 --- a/man/search.texi +++ b/man/search.texi @@ -464,9 +464,12 @@ say, incremental regexp and non-regexp searches have independent defaults. They also have separate search rings that you can access with @kbd{M-p} and @kbd{M-n}. +@vindex search-whitespace-regexp If you type @key{SPC} in incremental regexp search, it matches any -sequence of whitespace characters, including newlines. If you want -to match just a space, type @kbd{C-q @key{SPC}}. +sequence of whitespace characters, including newlines. If you want to +match just a space, type @kbd{C-q @key{SPC}}. You can control what a +bare spece matches by setting the variable +@code{search-whitespace-regexp} to the desired regexp. Note that adding characters to the regexp in an incremental regexp search can make the cursor move back and start again. For example, if |