From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Thr4wn'" <Seth.A.Bird@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Regex Problem
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:57:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000601c8ecfe$50a30b50$0ab32382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cfae3eb-8300-4a47-9643-66c8a30cef49@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com>
> > You can, but you should most definitely not. It just makes the text
> > hard to read or edit in anything other than Emacs. Just use \n.
>
> That's a good point, I didn't think about that.
>
> However, whenever I try to use \n in my regex searches, emacs does not
> seem to recognize that as a newline. the regexp syntax documentation
> also does not seem to mention any way to refer to a newline.
> Am I just missing something?
Interactively (e.g. C-M-s), you must use an actual newline character (via C-q
j), not \n.
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[not found] <mailman.15059.1216536041.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-20 7:48 ` Regex Problem Xah
2008-07-21 16:23 ` John Paul Wallington
2008-07-21 21:47 ` Thr4wn
2008-07-22 12:29 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.15163.1216729783.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-23 19:30 ` Thr4wn
2008-07-23 19:57 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-07-23 22:36 ` Bernardo Bacic
2008-07-23 22:43 ` Drew Adams
2008-07-24 11:18 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-07-19 17:50 travis jeffery
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