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In XEmacs, if sitting in whitespace, isearch-yank-word gobbles the whitespace along with the next word. In Emacs it does not; it adds one space at a time. Is there a way to make Emacs isearch-yank-word gobble whitespace?

Drew
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  • Using Emacs 24.3.50, Emacs gobbles _all_ the whitespace from point to the next word in one go (C-s C-w), and on a second keypress (C-w) it adds the next word to the search string. So C-s C-w C-w provides the behaviour you are looking for. – Tyler Oct 08 '13 at 17:05
  • You're right; part of my problem is that I'm using 23.1.1. Even so: with 24.3.2 (latest I could find), it _does_ gobble whitespace, but still does not gobble punctuation. Is there any way to control it? – John H. Oct 08 '13 at 18:52
  • This behaviour is hard-coded, as far as I can see. You could advise the function, but that will take a bit more time to figure out. – Tyler Oct 08 '13 at 20:20

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