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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: searching that wrap over lines
Keywords: search
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Date: 18 Jan 89 20:14:46 GMT
References: <2922@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>
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In-reply-to: pausch@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Randy Pausch)

In article <2922@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>, pausch@uvacs (Randy Pausch) writes:
>Does anyone have a GNUemacs lisp function handy that allows incremental
>string searches to wrap over lines?  (I guess this would involve 
>converting the string search to a regular expression search, so that
>the newlines would match, as well as spaces).

Ummm, GNU emacs comes with a perfectly good one, isearch-forward.  If
you type a return at it while it is prompting for a search string, it
mathces that jsut like any other character.  What?  You say you have
search-exit-char bound to return?  Then just quote a newline with
^Q^J.

Piece o' pie.

p.s. There are also incremental regexp searches (isearch-*-regexp) in
case you were wondering.
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