From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines? Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 11:27:28 +0300 Message-ID: References: <8735a6cj2k.fsf@mbork.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12809"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.7+37 (a90f69b) (2022-09-02) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 26 09:29:45 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oyqZF-00039x-7G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 09:29:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oyqYl-0000AY-FX; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 03:29:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oyqYi-0000AG-3g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 03:29:12 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oyqYg-0007Hq-9r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 03:29:11 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:154.229.164.172]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000C5D64.000000006381CE33.00003C11; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 01:28:34 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Marcin Borkowski , Help Gnu Emacs mailing list Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8735a6cj2k.fsf@mbork.pl> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, 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:141162 Archived-At: * Marcin Borkowski [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 Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/