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From: GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it (Gian Uberto Lauri)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Regexp to match any character, including newline?
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 10:20:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16257.9657.880756.550500@mail.eng.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wkisn4mzkx.fsf@TheWorld.com>

>>>>> "JF" == Joe Fineman <jcf@TheWorld.com> writes:

JF> It is sometimes a nuisance that "." in a regexp does not match
JF> newlines.  For example, I want a regexp for text in parentheses that
JF> contains the word "and" followed (anywhere) by a date.

JF>   (.+ and .+ [1-2][0-9][0-9][0-9].+)

What about something like:

\(.*[\n]\) 

;; Warning, can cause regexp stack overflow.

font-lock has should font-lock-multiline (HOW????) since Emacs 21

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-06  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-04 22:02 Regexp to match any character, including newline? Joe Fineman
2003-10-04 22:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-04 22:59 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-05  7:09   ` Martin Stone Davis
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1130.1065337789.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-05 20:35     ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-05 21:45 ` Joe Fineman
2003-10-06  8:20 ` Gian Uberto Lauri [this message]

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