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From: asp@lancelot.avalon.cs.cmu.edu (James Aspnes)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: searching that wrap over lines
Message-ID: <4056@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 89 22:01:29 GMT
References: <2922@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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In-reply-to: pausch@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU's message of 18 Jan 89 16:10:42 GMT

In article <2922@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU> pausch@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (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).

Isearch will do this, you just have to quote newlines using C-q.

E.g.: foo^Q^Jbar matches

fjfjfjekf foo
bar
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