From: "Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Searching for lines longer than x characters possible?
Date: 08 Nov 2002 12:12:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5lwunougs1.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: h8ngqa.ppu.ln@davidlist.dk
>>>>> "David" == David List <david@davidlist.dk> writes:
> I would like to go through some program source files before converting them
> to ps, to check for lines longer than, for instance, 80 characters, so that
> I don't get strange looking ps files.
If you really mean 80chars, then C-u C-s ^.\{81\} should do the trick.
If you mean 80columns, it's trickier (unless you have no TABs or things
like that, such that it reduces to the 80chars problem).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-08 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-08 16:03 Searching for lines longer than x characters possible? David List
2002-11-08 16:52 ` Barry Margolin
2002-11-08 17:12 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> [this message]
2002-11-08 17:28 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-11-09 10:20 ` David List
2002-11-11 11:47 ` Phillip Lord
2002-11-12 16:44 ` Lee Sau Dan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-08 18:50 Bingham, Jay
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