====== Emacs tip of the day ======
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I write a lot of papers these days (articles, thesis, ...). Often I need to fix issues/errors/typos from dead-tree-printed-version annotations to my LaTeX sources.

Unfortunately, ''isearch-forward'' (''C-s'') is not really convenient for this purpose since I use ''fill-paragraph'' (''M-q'') all the time, so that the consecutive words I'm looking for may as well lay on different lines.

Here is a quick solution : set ''search-whitespace-regexp'' to ''"[ \t\r\n]+"'' (//via// ''M-x customize-option RET search-whitespace-regexp RET'').
It won't help for ''C-s'', but ''isearch-forward-regexp'' (''C-M-s'') may do the trick as well. The only drawback left is when you search something that contains regexp meta characters, but I can live with it for now.

An obvious solution would be to write a command that performs ''isearch-forward-regexp'' but with a slightly modifed ''isearch-mode-map'' that would insert escaped meta characters automagically.

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