additional laxity does not apply to the lazy highlight
(@pxref{Incremental Search}), which always matches whole words.
- The word search commands don't perform character folding and cannot
-support lax whitespace matching (@pxref{Lax Search}).
+ The word search commands don't perform character folding, and
+toggling lax whitespace matching (@pxref{Lax Search, lax space
+matching}) has no effect on them.
@kindex M-s M-w
@findex eww-search-word
the search string are required to match the beginning and end of a
symbol, respectively.
- The symbol search commands don't perform character folding and
-cannot support lax whitespace matching (@pxref{Lax Search}).
+ The symbol search commands don't perform character folding, and
+toggling lax whitespace matching (@pxref{Lax Search, lax space
+matching}) has no effect on them.
@node Regexp Search
@section Regular Expression Search
Like ordinary incremental search except that your input is treated
as a sequence of words without regard to how the words are separated.
See the command `isearch-forward' for more information.
-This command does not support character folding or lax space matching."
+This command does not support character folding, and lax space matching
+has no effect on it."
(interactive "P\np")
(isearch-mode t nil nil (not no-recursive-edit) (null not-word)))
Like ordinary incremental search except that your input is treated
as a symbol surrounded by symbol boundary constructs \\_< and \\_>.
See the command `isearch-forward' for more information.
-This command does not support character folding or lax space matching."
+This command does not support character folding, and lax space matching
+has no effect on it."
(interactive "P\np")
(isearch-mode t nil nil (not no-recursive-edit) 'isearch-symbol-regexp))
Relies on the function `word-search-regexp' to convert a sequence
of words in STRING to a regexp used to search words without regard
to punctuation.
-This command does not support character folding or lax space matching."
+This command does not support character folding, and lax space matching
+has no effect on it."
(interactive "sWord search backward: ")
(re-search-backward (word-search-regexp string nil) bound noerror count))
Relies on the function `word-search-regexp' to convert a sequence
of words in STRING to a regexp used to search words without regard
to punctuation.
-This command does not support character folding or lax space matching."
+This command does not support character folding, and lax space matching
+has no effect on it."
(interactive "sWord search: ")
(re-search-forward (word-search-regexp string nil) bound noerror count))
Relies on the function `word-search-regexp' to convert a sequence
of words in STRING to a regexp used to search words without regard
to punctuation.
-This command does not support character folding or lax space matching."
+This command does not support character folding, and lax space matching
+has no effect on it."
(interactive "sWord search backward: ")
(re-search-backward (word-search-regexp string t) bound noerror count))
Relies on the function `word-search-regexp' to convert a sequence
of words in STRING to a regexp used to search words without regard
to punctuation.
-This command does not support character folding or lax space matching."
+This command does not support character folding, and lax space matching
+has no effect on it."
(interactive "sWord search: ")
(re-search-forward (word-search-regexp string t) bound noerror count))