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From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: searching that wrap over lines
Keywords: search
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Date: 19 Jan 89 20:37:51 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).
| 
| Thanks,  
| 
|      pausch@virginia.edu

Or, you can just invoke ESC-^S (isearch-forward-regexp), and put "\W+"
where you want whitespace.  I do that all the time.
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