From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How can i search for lines which wrap? Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 09:35:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83r1g8c7uw.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26869"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 09 08:36:34 2021 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 1m1k7l-0006uA-RC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2021 08:36:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35058 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m1k7k-0007Md-Pr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2021 02:36:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46710) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m1k74-0007Kq-2R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2021 02:35:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37484) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m1k73-0004t0-Re for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2021 02:35:49 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4166 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m1k73-00084y-3a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2021 02:35:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Dan Hitt on Thu, 8 Jul 2021 21:39:08 -0700) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131629 Archived-At: > From: Dan Hitt > Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 21:39:08 -0700 > > I was recently editing a document to try to make all the lines be no longer > than 79 characters. > > There were a few ways that could occur: one would be a line of 80 dashes, > one would be a line of 80 underscores, and there were a few variants that i > could systematically locate (by searching for the offending pattern > followed by a control-J), and then fix. Searching for control-J by itself > wouldn't do because i only wanted to get to the end of lines that are too > long. > > So what i was missing was an easy way to search to the end of the next line > with 80 or more characters. Use end-of-line to go to the end of a line, then use current-column to find out the column number, and compare that to 79 (or any other number you need).