From: "Rudolf Adamkovič" <salutis@me.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>,
Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines?
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 22:55:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2bkoiq1ef.fsf@me.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735a6cj2k.fsf@mbork.pl>
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> 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.
I have the following in my literate Emacs configuration file:
* Isearch configuration
[...]
Search across spaces, tabs, and newlines.
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setq isearch-lax-whitespace t
isearch-regexp-lax-whitespace t
search-whitespace-regexp "[ \t\r\n]+")
#+end_src
Perhaps that could help you?
Rudy
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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
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 [this message]
2022-12-05 23:06 ` Emanuel Berg
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