Re: Searching across line breaks

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 18.07.2011 13:00, schrieb spinner:
> This did not work for me.

George[\r\t\f
]+Washington

should find any name separated by blanks, tabs, newpages, cr, newlines

the newline-expression in the regexp must be typed \C-o inside the 
minibuffer, ie inserted literarly


> 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