From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: spinner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Searching across line breaks Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:00:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <32082295.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <32080601.post@talk.nabble.com> <4E23F34B.80108@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310986958 15223 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2011 11:02:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:02:38 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 18 13:02:34 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qilas-0001jg-Jy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:02:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55225 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qilaq-0000Zv-Rx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41948) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QilZ3-0000YG-R3 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QilYz-0001qf-7t for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from sam.nabble.com ([216.139.236.26]:51630) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QilYy-0001qW-T7 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:00:37 -0400 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QilYx-0003oR-E8 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:00:35 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4E23F34B.80108@easy-emacs.de> X-Nabble-From: michaelcrain@hotmail.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 216.139.236.26 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:81652 Archived-At: This did not work for me.=20 According to the links in my OP, some settings need to be customized to mak= e search-whitespace-regexp work across CRs (and other separators). But as I said I find the documentation on this customization confusing. C-h v search-whitespace-regexp Andreas R=C3=B6hler wrote: >=20 > Am 18.07.2011 05:57, schrieb spinner: >> >> I've got text with carriage returns (CR) ending lines in my LaTex >> documents. >> isearch does not work for word strings with CRs separating the words. Fo= r >> instance, isearch on 'George Washington' will not find: >> George [CR] >> Washington >> >> I've looked online for a solution and found one source that describes th= e >> issue but I'm confused what the customization to the >> search-whitespace-regexp variable should be. >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6029010/isearch-across-line-breaks >> >> This link describes the confusion. I'm a new to emacs and can't figure >> out >> the variable settings. >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2011-05/msg00427.html >> >> Again, what is the proper setting in search-whitespace-regexp to search >> across line breaks with carriage returns? >> >=20 > M-x isearch-forward-regexp RET >=20 > should enable the right thing here. >=20 > Regards, >=20 > Andreas >=20 >=20 >=20 --=20 View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Searching-across-line-b= reaks-tp32080601p32082295.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.