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Re: Searching across line breaks
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Re: Searching across line breaks |
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Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:00:35 -0700 (PDT) |
This did not work for me.
According to the links in my OP, some settings need to be customized to make
search-whitespace-regexp work across CRs (and other separators). But as I
said I find the documentation on this customization confusing. C-h v
search-whitespace-regexp
Andreas Röhler wrote:
>
> Am 18.07.2011 05:57, schrieb spinner:
>>
>> I've got text with carriage returns (CR) ending lines in my LaTex
>> documents.
>> isearch does not work for word strings with CRs separating the words. For
>> instance, isearch on 'George Washington' will not find:
>> George [CR]
>> Washington
>>
>> I've looked online for a solution and found one source that describes the
>> issue but I'm confused what the customization to the
>> search-whitespace-regexp variable should be.
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6029010/isearch-across-line-breaks
>>
>> This link describes the confusion. I'm a new to emacs and can't figure
>> out
>> the variable settings.
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2011-05/msg00427.html
>>
>> Again, what is the proper setting in search-whitespace-regexp to search
>> across line breaks with carriage returns?
>>
>
> M-x isearch-forward-regexp RET
>
> should enable the right thing here.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
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- Searching across line breaks, spinner, 2011/07/17
- Re: Searching across line breaks, Andreas Röhler, 2011/07/18
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- Re: Searching across line breaks, Andreas Röhler, 2011/07/18
- Re: Searching across line breaks, Peter Dyballa, 2011/07/18
- Re: Searching across line breaks, Andreas Röhler, 2011/07/19
- Re: Searching across line breaks, Memnon Anon, 2011/07/19
- Re: Searching across line breaks, Andreas Röhler, 2011/07/19
Re: Searching across line breaks, Memnon Anon, 2011/07/18