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

[Emanuel Berg]

tomas wrote:

>> It can be done with regular expressions of course, but ...
>> I wonder if it isn't better to have some "inexact" search
>> algorithm [...]
>
>> Because the advantage would then also be that even the
>> words wouldn't have to be exact!
>> 
>> Interesting, I'd like that myself very much!
>> 
>> Do we have that?
>
> You might enjoy agrep, then. If you want to go further, do
> some research on weighted Levenshtein distance (there /is/
> an elisp function named `string-distance` for you, then).
>
> Beyond that, you are firmly in "information retrieval" land,
> with its diverse and colourful landscape :-)
>
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_retrieval

Okay, so agrep, weighted Levenshtein distance,
`string-distance' and information retrieval ...

There is an endless world to rediscover :)

Thanks, get back to you, maybe.

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