From fd7bb314128baa270d63c79fac97792be5a271e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Daniel=20Mart=C3=ADn?= Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 09:37:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update documentation of search-whitespace-regexp * doc/emacs/search.texi (Lax Search): Update the documentation about the default value of search-whitespace-regexp, as it is now independent of the major mode's syntax table (bug#51020). --- doc/emacs/search.texi | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/emacs/search.texi b/doc/emacs/search.texi index 8a101f1150b..761161be1c0 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/search.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/search.texi @@ -1332,9 +1332,8 @@ precisely, Emacs matches each sequence of space characters in the search string to a regular expression specified by the variable @code{search-whitespace-regexp}. For example, to make spaces match sequences of newlines as well as spaces, set it to -@samp{"[[:space:]\n]+"}. The default value of this variable depends -on the buffer's major mode; most major modes classify spaces, tabs, -and formfeed characters as whitespace. +@samp{"[[:space:]\n]+"}. The default value of this variable considers +any sequence of spaces and tab characters as whitespace. If you want whitespace characters to match exactly, you can turn lax space matching off by typing @kbd{M-s @key{SPC}} -- 2.39.5