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: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 10:44:44 +0300 Message-ID: References: <8735a6cj2k.fsf@mbork.pl> <83lenyt7kq.fsf@gnu.org> <87zgccsvjw.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32970"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.7+37 (a90f69b) (2022-09-02) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 27 08:46:07 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 1ozCMY-0008O3-QJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2022 08:46:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ozCLz-0005vF-BK; Sun, 27 Nov 2022 02:45:31 -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 1ozCLv-0005ux-DG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2022 02:45:29 -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 1ozCLq-0004UF-1b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2022 02:45:24 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.4.96]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000055D86.000000006383158E.00003638; Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:45:18 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Michael Heerdegen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87zgccsvjw.fsf@web.de> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: 16 X-Spam_score: 1.6 X-Spam_bar: + X-Spam_report: (1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, RCVD_IN_SBL_CSS=3.335, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no 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:141192 Archived-At: * Michael Heerdegen [2022-11-27 10:32]: > Jean Louis writes: > > > It means it is not to be used to search for new lines in program, as > > programs may not have syntax tables. > > > > Then this is solution: > > > > (rx (one-or-more (or "\n" (any whitespace)))) ➜ "\\(?: > > \\|[[:space:]]\\)+" > > `rx' has a keyword to mach any char (including whitespace), it's > called `anychar'. OK sure, thanks. Though I can't see relation from any char to searching for whitespaces including new line. How do you mean it? -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/