From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines?
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 07:42:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735a6cj2k.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
Hi all,
assume I have a file (probably an Org mode one) with some stuff
I archived from the 'net. (I'm going to start to sue
youtube-sub-extractor.el.) Here is my problem: assume 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.
Traditional `grep' is not helpful in this situation. Neither is
isearch, nor swiper. One idea would be to convert the subtitles to one
long line (which is an option), but are there any other ways to search
for a string spanning more than one line (and not knowing which words
are separated by a space and which ones by a newline)?
Both Emacs-y and shell-y tools would be appreciated.
TIA,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next reply other threads:[~2022-11-26 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-26 6:42 Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2022-11-26 8:27 ` How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines? 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
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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