Re: replacing phrases: matching line feeds in regular expressions, since \s- doesn't work

[bitterspetey <business@stevepetersen.net>]

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Thanks for the suggestions so far!


query-replace does not seem to work across newlines (to my surprise).


foo[\s^J]bar also does not work; I thought \s- was supposed to match any
whitespace, including newline, and not be interpreted as part of a range in
this case.


This one below does work, and thank you!  But as you say, it's kludgy. Is
this really the best emacs can do to replace a phrase?!  Why doesn't \s-
work in this context? Is there no way to match any whitespace?


Jeremiah Dodds wrote:
> 
> The following works for me with the words separated by arbitrary
> whitespace including newlines (although it is ugly, and I'm sure there's
> better ways to do it):
> 
> M-x replace-regexp foo[ ^TAB^j]*bar[ ^TAB^j]*baz[ ^TAB^j] RET fbb RET
> 
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