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Re: emacs regexp question
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Jesper Harder |
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Re: emacs regexp question |
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Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:56:53 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
D. Goel <deego@gnufans.org> writes:
>> - How should I ask for the first occurrence of N blank lines for
>> some fixed, yet large, N.
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> "\n\n\n\n..." I don't think there's another way to do it using emacs'
> regexps.
You can use the \{M\} postfix operator (M integer).
So e.g. "\n\\{500\\}" would match exactly 500 blank lines.