Re: Strange behavior in search-forward-regexp?

[Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com>]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

>> So what happens is that the match begin at the empty line then and
>> then "wraps around" to the next row? How can I avoid it?
>
> Use [^;<newline>] in the regular expression, where <newline> is entered 
> with C-q C-j.

Thanks!  That's what I eventually did (although I used `\n'
instead)and posted the answer here, but it seems thet gmane or the
list has had problems yesterday.