From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Searching across line breaks
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:40:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E247025.9020207@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32082295.post@talk.nabble.com>
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
>>
>>
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-18 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-18 3:57 Searching across line breaks spinner
2011-07-18 8:48 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-18 11:00 ` spinner
2011-07-18 17:40 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2011-07-18 18:58 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-07-19 5:30 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-19 13:45 ` Memnon Anon
2011-07-19 16:39 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-18 9:34 ` Memnon Anon
2011-07-18 11:06 ` spinner
2011-07-18 12:30 ` ken
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