From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thr4wn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Regex Problem Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:30:51 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1cfae3eb-8300-4a47-9643-66c8a30cef49@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216842054 28743 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2008 19:40:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:40:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 21:41:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KLkDL-0006f5-SL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:41:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37434 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLkCS-0001Vy-Dz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:40:36 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.254.27.75 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1216841452 7938 127.0.0.1 (23 Jul 2008 19:30:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:30:52 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=216.254.27.75; posting-account=yciHbgoAAAC-yiSCERRTWUTnOnw8WIwj User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Iceweasel/2.0.0.14 (Debian-2.0.0.14-2), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160518 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55865 Archived-At: On Jul 22, 8:29 am, Nikolaj Schumacher wrote: > You can, but you should most definitely not. It just makes the text > hard to read or edit in anything other than Emacs. Just use \n. That's a good point, I didn't think about that. However, whenever I try to use \n in my regex searches, emacs does not seem to recognize that as a newline. the regexp syntax documentation also does not seem to mention any way to refer to a newline. Am I just missing something? -Thr4wn