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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines?
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 07:54:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qpodgzn.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y1rxix4e.fsf@dataswamp.org>


On 2022-11-26, at 15:55, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
>> I remember that someone in some video said something, and
>> I want to find that part. However, it turns out that it is
>> split between two (or more) lines.
>
> (re-search-forward ";; Hello my friend\n;; stay a while, and listen")
>
> ;; Hello my friend
> ;; stay a while, and listen

Well, that's obviously cheating.  The real problem is how to search when
you have no idea where you have spaces and where you have newlines...

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl



  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-27  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-26  6:42 How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines? Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-26  8:27 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-26  8:36 ` tomas
2022-11-26  8:43   ` Jean Louis
2022-11-26  8:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-26  9:06       ` Jean Louis
2022-11-27  7:31         ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-27  7:44           ` Jean Louis
2022-11-27 12:04             ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-27 18:25               ` Jean Louis
2022-11-26 10:57 ` Arthur Miller
2022-11-26 14:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-27  6:54   ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2022-11-27  7:26     ` Jean Louis
2022-11-27 13:48     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-27 18:10       ` tomas
2022-11-27 19:04         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-27 19:46         ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-28  5:07           ` tomas
2022-11-28  6:17             ` Drew Adams
2022-11-29  2:00               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 21:05             ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-11-28 21:12               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 21:17               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-04 21:55 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-12-05 23:06   ` Emanuel Berg

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