From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines?
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 03:00:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mt8a5xkz.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: SJ0PR10MB54881AE51E43AAC095F29539F3139@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com
Like this maybe?
;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
;;
;; this file:
;; https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/psea.el
(require 'cl-lib)
(defun pattern-search (str &optional beg end)
(interactive `(,(read-string "search: ")
,@(when (use-region-p)
(list (region-beginning)
(region-end) ))))
(or beg (setq beg (point-min)))
(or end (setq end (point-max)))
(cl-loop
with len = (length str)
for c from beg to (- end len)
with hit
with hit-dist
with best
with best-dist = len
do (setq hit (buffer-substring-no-properties c (+ c len)))
(setq hit-dist (string-distance hit str))
(when (< hit-dist best-dist)
(setq best hit)
(setq best-dist hit-dist) )
finally (message "%s" (list best best-dist)) ))
(defalias 'psea #'pattern-search)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-29 2:00 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
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 [this message]
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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