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From: hrp@hall.cray.com (Hal Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: searching that wrap over lines
Keywords: search
Message-ID: <12857@hall.cray.com>
Date: 19 Jan 89 02:31:54 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?

It already does.  To insert a newline into the search string, you must
quote it with C-q; so to look for the line in your posting that ends
with ``incremental'' and is followed by a line beginning with
``string'', you might type
	C-s t a l C-q C-j s t r
Notice that newlines in files on UNIX systems are represented by the
C-j character, so that's what you have to put in your search string.