Re: Searching across line breaks

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Am 18.07.2011 13:00, schrieb spinner:
>
> This did not work for me.

George[\r\t\f
]+Washington

should find any name separated by blanks, tabs, newpages, cr, newlines

the newline-expression in the regexp must be typed \C-o inside the 
minibuffer, ie inserted literarly


> According to the links in my OP, some settings need to be customized to make
> 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 Röhler wrote:
>>
>> 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. For
>>> instance, isearch on 'George Washington' will not find:
>>> George [CR]
>>> Washington
>>>
>>> I've looked online for a solution and found one source that describes the
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> M-x isearch-forward-regexp RET
>>
>> should enable the right thing here.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>>
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