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From: Mark Elston <m.elston@advantest-ard.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how can I make regexp expression effective across many lines
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:00:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12rsuu6srag2j6b@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.3755.1170105424.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

* Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote (on 1/29/2007 1:16 PM):
> Michael Chen wrote:
>> Hi, there, I have problem with newlines in regexp. Here is what I want
>> to do: delete anything between <FORM> to TIP OF THE WEEK inclusively.
>> There are many lines in between. Any regex I tried can not go through
>> the newline. Any idea? Thanks.
>>
>> Michael Chen
> 
> 
> Maybe this helps:
> 
>   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SymbolicRegexp
> 
> I have not looked at sregex myself, but I looked a bit at rx.el.
> 
> 

You live and learn.  I wish I had learned this *last* week! :)

Mark

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-29 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-29 21:01 how can I make regexp expression effective across many lines Michael Chen
2007-01-29 21:16 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-29 21:40 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-29 21:47   ` Drew Adams
2007-01-29 22:11 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.3755.1170105424.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-29 23:00   ` Mark Elston [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.3753.1170104495.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-29 21:26 ` Pascal Bourguignon
     [not found] <mailman.3757.1170107259.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-29 23:05 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-01-29 23:52   ` Drew Adams

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