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> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 07:14:42 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> 
> I need to search for phrases like 'others contend' within a buffer, even
> when they span across multiple lines. What steps should I take to
> achieve this with an elisp function ? 
> 
> For example, consider the following text where the phrase 'sees the human 
> mind' is split between two lines, yet I need to match it in its entirety.

This is already supported, but you need to let-bind
search-whitespace-regexp to a value that matches newlines.  See the
description in the node "Lax Search" in the Emacs user manual.