From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Re: How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines? Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:17:45 +0100 Message-ID: <87h6yi7p8m.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <8735a6cj2k.fsf@mbork.pl> <87y1rxix4e.fsf@dataswamp.org> <871qpodgzn.fsf@mbork.pl> <87edtoh5iz.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4326"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:7vbcz/8V8afjV9seAs8hv7gs0II= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 28 22:34:01 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ozllJ-0000sZ-Ov for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:34:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ozll1-0004vp-Qu; Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:33:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ozlXx-0001qT-FL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:20:13 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ozlXq-0002tB-Rr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:20:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ozlXm-0003jV-NS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:20:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, T_SPF_TEMPERROR=0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:33:37 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141224 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: >> Now to find the differences to the built-in `string-distance'. > > That's easy: > > (string-distance "string-distance" "levenshtein") => 13 But how do search a whole buffer with `string-distance'? I mean it's easy enough to eat your way thru the buffer top-to-bottom, then compare and compile, but by what unit? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal