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: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 03:00:28 +0100 Message-ID: <87mt8a5xkz.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="35225"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:TE6kiXSm7cPuOXeXaSamv5VVoUI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 30 14:49:01 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 1p0NSP-0008yS-I9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:49:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p0NS4-0007HG-E1; Wed, 30 Nov 2022 08:48:40 -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 1ozpvX-0002sf-5y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2022 21:00:51 -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 1ozpvK-0007B3-Ip for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2022 21:00:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ozpvI-0005AO-3V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2022 03:00:36 +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_PASS=-0.001, T_SPF_HELO_TEMPERROR=0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 08:48:33 -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:141260 Archived-At: 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) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal