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Re: Strange behavior in search-forward-regexp?
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Strange behavior in search-forward-regexp? |
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Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:19:17 -0500 |
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In article <m2hd74fwu9.fsf@gmail.com>,
Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> wrote:
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
> >> So what happens is that the match begin at the empty line then and
> >> then "wraps around" to the next row? How can I avoid it?
> >
> > Use [^;<newline>] in the regular expression, where <newline> is entered
> > with C-q C-j.
>
> Thanks! That's what I eventually did (although I used `\n'
> instead)and posted the answer here, but it seems thet gmane or the
> list has had problems yesterday.
Yeah, I didn't remember until after I posted that you were doing this in
code, not interactively. When using interactive re-search, you have to
type C-q C-j.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Re: Strange behavior in search-forward-regexp?, Peter Dyballa, 2006/02/11