Re: line-spanning regexp

[Kevin Rodgers]

Bingham, Jay wrote:

> On Tuesday, January 14, 2003 7:47 PM Greg Hill Wrote
> > "string1[^\n]*[\n]?[^\n]*string2"
>
> The above pattern for a regexp may NOT work in all circumstances.
> Specifically it may not work correctly when used in interactive regular
> expression searches (isearch-forward-regexp, C-M-S;
> isearch-backward-regexp, C-M-r; search-forward-regexp and
> search-backward-regexp).


I assumed the presence of the delimiting double quotes was to indicate that
he meant a string to be passed to the non-interactive functions and not a
key sequence to be typed to the interactive commands.

...


> The correct regexp (that does not depend on the presence of an n or \)
> to use in interactive searches is (as typed to enter it):
>
> "string1[^C-qC-j]*[C-qC-j]?[^C-qC-j]*string2"


Isn't `[^C-qC-j]' equivalent to `.'?


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