Re: Strange behavior in search-forward-regexp?

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <m2hd74fwu9.fsf@gmail.com>,
 Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> wrote:

> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
> >> So what happens is that the match begin at the empty line then and
> >> then "wraps around" to the next row? How can I avoid it?
> >
> > Use [^;<newline>] in the regular expression, where <newline> is entered 
> > with C-q C-j.
> 
> Thanks!  That's what I eventually did (although I used `\n'
> instead)and posted the answer here, but it seems thet gmane or the
> list has had problems yesterday.

Yeah, I didn't remember until after I posted that you were doing this in 
code, not interactively.  When using interactive re-search, you have to 
type C-q C-j.

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