From: Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com>
To: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: How can i search for lines which wrap?
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 21:39:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOphizL+AeqJN+TorS9CG5yQ8b3zG_hX0W1O1Px5qtGOXjTSiA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
I was recently editing a document to try to make all the lines be no longer
than 79 characters.
There were a few ways that could occur: one would be a line of 80 dashes,
one would be a line of 80 underscores, and there were a few variants that i
could systematically locate (by searching for the offending pattern
followed by a control-J), and then fix. Searching for control-J by itself
wouldn't do because i only wanted to get to the end of lines that are too
long.
So what i was missing was an easy way to search to the end of the next line
with 80 or more characters.
Basically, i would like to search for the continuation character which
signifies that the next visible line is not really a new line. In the
emacs gui, this is depicted as a curved arrow in the margin. In text emas,
this is signified by a backslash (that you cannot search for as a
backslash).
Since emacs can do everything else, i imagine there must be some way to
search for this, but i cannot recall ever having done so.
Thanks for any clues on how to do this.
dan
next reply other threads:[~2021-07-09 4:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-09 4:39 Dan Hitt [this message]
2021-07-09 5:12 ` How can i search for lines which wrap? 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-07-09 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-09 6:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-10 1:20 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-12 17:16 ` Drew Adams
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