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

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2022-11-26, at 15:55, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
>> I remember that someone in some video said something, and
>> I want to find that part. However, it turns out that it is
>> split between two (or more) lines.
>
> (re-search-forward ";; Hello my friend\n;; stay a while, and listen")
>
> ;; Hello my friend
> ;; stay a while, and listen

Well, that's obviously cheating.  The real problem is how to search when
you have no idea where you have spaces and where you have newlines...

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