From c283cff54cba36a5eabd43da4444d9da9d0aa721 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:57:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (Regexp Search): Doc search-whitespace-regexp. --- man/search.texi | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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 -- 2.39.2