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From: S.Clayman@CS.UCL.AC.UK
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Subject: Re: Newlines in regexps
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Gabriel writes:

>> 
>>    I guess what I am really asking is: is there an easy way to put newlines
>>    in regexps?
>> 
>> No, and this is a problem.  I've always thought that emacs regexps
>> should have a special character that matches ALL chacters, including
>> newlines.  Not having this makes writing certain regexps cumbersome. 

The answer is YES.

Try re-searching for [a-z]^Q^J[a-z]

This will find every line that ends in an alpha char followed by a
line that starts with a alpha char.

I suppose the secret is to treat the newline as the ^J character not
some special regexp end-of-line.  I use this regularly.

Stuart