From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gmayer@cs.bgu.ac.il Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs regexp question Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 17:24:21 GMT Organization: NetVision InterNetNews site Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054744903 17920 80.91.224.249 (4 Jun 2003 16:41:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 16:41:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 04 18:41:42 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NbG2-0004Ip-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 18:37:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NbAR-00043u-Oi for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 12:31:15 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newspeer.monmouth.com!nntp.abs.net!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!news2.netvision.net.il!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl212-235-121-176.bb.netvision.net.il Original-X-Trace: news2.netvision.net.il 1054743880 4402 212.235.121.176 (4 Jun 2003 16:24:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@netvision.net.il Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 16:24:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: News Rover 8.2.2 (http://www.NewsRover.com) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114108 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10602 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10602 Hello: There are some regexps I don't know how to specify in gnu emacs: - How should I ask for the first occurrence of two blank lines? - How should I ask for the first occurrence of N blank lines for some fixed, yet large, N. I think emacs uses ^ for the start of the line, though I've seen some regexp libraries (not for emacs) that use the ^ as a sort of "exponentiation" symbol for the number of times a string is concatenated. - How can I search for regexps that have one or more newlines in the middle? Brief explanations and/or brief examples of the above would greatly be appreciated! Thanks, Mayer (gmayer@cs.bgu.ac.il)