unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* How can i search for lines which wrap?
@ 2021-07-09  4:39 Dan Hitt
  2021-07-09  5:12 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dan Hitt @ 2021-07-09  4:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Help Gnu Emacs

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


^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2021-07-12 17:16 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2021-07-09  4:39 How can i search for lines which wrap? Dan Hitt
2021-07-09  5:12 ` 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

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).