From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arthur Miller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines? 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envelope-from=arthur.miller@live.com; helo=EUR05-AM6-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:141167 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > 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, If your plans are to use regex search & friends in Emacs Lisp, then matching over multiple lines can be a bit tricky. Out of the box, without trixing with syntax tables (which I am not familiar with), ".*" will match only to the end of the line. You can use ".*\\(\n.*\\)*". I have learned it from the Wiki page: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultilineRegexp . I don't know if you are aware of it already or not, hope it helps.