Remove orderless-temporarily-change-separator

[oantolin]

Remove orderless-temporarily-change-separator

[noctuid]

I mentioned this in the other issue, but it's kind of been buried. As an alternative, it might be nice if you could do something like escape spaces to make then not act as separators.

[oantolin]

Yes, that might be a good idea. One workaround in the meantime, if you are using regexp matching, is to use \s- for the whitespace character category. (That matches whitespace in general, not just spaces.)

[oantolin]

How does just using split-string-and-unquote instead of split-string sound?

This would let you use spaces in a component by surrounding the component in double quotes. And you can still put double quotes in your pattern by putting them in a quoted component and escaping them with backslashes: a "b c" d "e \"f g" => a, b c, d, e "f g

[noctuid]

Ah it's similar shell args. I don't know whether I would want to search for quotes or spaces more often, and this is a little lengthier. Probably it is the simplest solution though. I'd be okay with it.

[oantolin]

Oh, @noctuid, split-string-and-unquote discards empty components automatically, is that a deal-breaker?

[noctuid]

Yeah :/ I guess another approach I could use is transform another character to a space. Or use a different pattern compiler to change the separator.

[oantolin]

OK, I've been putting this off long enough. In the latest commit (5c2f44d), the separator can be a function too, and I added an orderless-escapable-split-on-space for you to use, @noctuid