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From: Steve Petersen <steve@stevepetersen.net>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: replacing phrases: matching line feeds in regular expressions, since \s- doesn't work
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:52:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGk0Nk9=s_=uiZ1D6iOGz8hViR_PvM_W9yaamSbwNJ1SGqQSYA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Hi emacs gurus,

[I accidentally posted this first to the main emacs forum, pardon my
newbness.]

I've spent hours scouring the web trying to solve what should be a simple
problem.  I appreciate any help!

I want to replace a three-word phrase with an acronym.  Should be easy,
right?  But of course I want to match across lines.  From what I read '\s-'
should match line feeds, but it doesn't.  The closest I've gotten to
matching across lines is using 'foo[\s-^J]+bar' (using ^Q to insert ^J
literally), but for some reason that *doesn't* match 'foo bar' on the same
line!  I'm out of ideas - what's going on?

I'm using GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.35).

Thanks,
Steve

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http://stevepetersen.net

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             reply	other threads:[~2012-02-18 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-18 17:52 Steve Petersen [this message]
2012-02-18 19:17 ` replacing phrases: matching line feeds in regular expressions, since \s- doesn't work Thorsten
2012-02-18 19:33 ` jeremiah.dodds
2012-02-18 20:44   ` Peter Dyballa
2012-02-19  2:47     ` jeremiah.dodds
2012-02-18 23:30   ` bitterspetey
2012-02-19  0:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-02-18 21:26 Silvio Levy
2012-02-19  3:04 ` jeremiah.dodds

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