From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Find first line FOLLOWING a sequence of matches Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:21:21 -0600 Message-ID: <20150430151743082434507@bob.proulx.com> References: <20150428222841721866707@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430428901 8535 80.91.229.3 (30 Apr 2015 21:21:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 21:21:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 30 23:21:40 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ynvtq-0000w8-TS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 23:21:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45900 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ynvtq-0006Q6-3f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:21:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47190) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ynvte-0006Pn-Hz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:21:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ynvta-0001gr-7o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:21:26 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:40666) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ynvta-0001gf-1T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:21:22 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42BD42184B for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:21:21 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 174822DC42; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:21:21 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150428222841721866707@bob.proulx.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104112 Archived-At: Bob Proulx wrote: > Jump to the bottom of the file. Search upward with one of the search > backward commands. Perhaps search-backward-regexp? That will locate > the last item. Then move to the beginning of line. Then next line. > That should do what you need. To put this thread back on track let me ask if this works for you or not? Does that technique of search upward from the bottom do the trick? Or is there something else? Bob