From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines?
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 11:27:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y4HN8GbyF/ZzDus2@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735a6cj2k.fsf@mbork.pl>
* Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> [2022-11-26 09:45]:
> 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.
I was just searching for pattern here:
(define-skeleton with-tabulated-id
"Helper skeleton for `tabulated-list-get-id'"
nil
"(defun " (skeleton-read "Function name: ") " (" (skeleton-read "Arguments: " "&optional id") ")
\"\"
(interactive)
(when-tabulated-id \"" (skeleton-read "Table: ") "\"
))")
by using this method and `grep':
$ grep -Pazo 'with-tabulated-id.*\n.*Helper' rcd-cf.el
with-tabulated-id
"Helper~/Programming/emacs-lisp
As advised here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/152708/how-can-i-search-for-a-multiline-pattern-in-a-file
So grep can find patterns across multiple lines.
--
Jean
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-26 8:27 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 [this message]
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
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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