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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