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From: liberte@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: searching that wrap over lines
Message-ID: <4300031@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 89 20:22:00 GMT
References: <2922@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>
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> 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?  
> 
> Ummm, GNU emacs comes with a perfectly good one, isearch-forward.
> 
> p.s. There are also incremental regexp searches (isearch-*-regexp) in
> case you were wondering.
> jr@bbn.com or bbn!jr

What he wants is a little different.  Any space in the string should also
be able to match a newline, or more generally, any whitespace.
This is just isearch-forward-regexp, except with added convenience.
A variable option could automatically replace space with [ \t\n\r\f]+
or, better, \\s-+.

Dan LaLiberte
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