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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines?
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 08:31:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgccsvjw.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Y4HXDP/52KXyIm4x@protected.localdomain

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> It means it is not to be used to search for new lines in program, as
> programs may not have syntax tables.
>
> Then this is solution:
>
> (rx (one-or-more (or "\n" (any whitespace)))) ➜ "\\(?:
> \\|[[:space:]]\\)+"

`rx' has a keyword to mach any char (including whitespace), it's
called `anychar'.

Michael.




  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-27  7:31 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 [this message]
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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