Re: How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines?

[Jean Louis]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2022-11-26 12:00]:
> > Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 11:43:47 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > Because "[[:space:]]+" does not include "\n" that I know:
> 
> Read its documentation carefully, and you will realize that whether it does
> or doesn't include a newline depends on the syntax table of the current
> buffer.

Thanks.

It means it is not to be used to search for new lines in program, as
programs may not have syntax tables.

Then this is solution:

(rx (one-or-more (or "\n" (any whitespace)))) ➜ "\\(?:
\\|[[:space:]]\\)+"


--
Jean

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