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Re: Three-Line service comments
From: |
Adrian Phillips |
Subject: |
Re: Three-Line service comments |
Date: |
03 Aug 2001 07:30:46 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 |
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Auckland <Tim.Auckland@Procket.com> writes:
Tim> Please could you give me an example? I've tried just
Tim> embedding $(n) in a search string or regexp and it doesn't
Tim> seem to help.
Tim> I'm trying to delete the three lines:
Tim> # # GNATS #
Tim> This doesn't find any matches: DeleteLinesContaining "#$(n)#
Tim> GNATS$(n)#"
Tim> This matches, but only deletes one line out of the three:
Tim> DeleteLinesMatching "(#$(n))*# GNATS($(n)#)*"
I tried this myself and couldn't get it to work, so I checked the
source and it seems to be that all of these matching routines match
against each individual line which of course means that multi-line
matches can't work, but its quite likely that I'm missing
something. Mark ?
Sincerely,
Adrian
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