pausch@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Randy Pausch) (01/19/89)
Does anyone have a GNUemacs lisp function handy that allows incremental
string searches to wrap over lines? (I guess this would involve
converting the string search to a regular expression search, so that
the newlines would match, as well as spaces).
Thanks,
pausch@virginia.edujr@bbn.com (John Robinson) (01/19/89)
In article <2922@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>, pausch@uvacs (Randy Pausch) writes: >Does anyone have a GNUemacs lisp function handy that allows incremental >string searches to wrap over lines? (I guess this would involve >converting the string search to a regular expression search, so that >the newlines would match, as well as spaces). Ummm, GNU emacs comes with a perfectly good one, isearch-forward. If you type a return at it while it is prompting for a search string, it mathces that jsut like any other character. What? You say you have search-exit-char bound to return? Then just quote a newline with ^Q^J. Piece o' pie. p.s. There are also incremental regexp searches (isearch-*-regexp) in case you were wondering. -- /jr jr@bbn.com or bbn!jr
bard@THEORY.LCS.MIT.EDU (01/19/89)
> In article <2922@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>, pausch@uvacs (Randy Pausch) writes: > >Does anyone have a GNUemacs lisp function handy that allows incremental > >string searches to wrap over lines? (I guess this would involve > >converting the string search to a regular expression search, so that > >the newlines would match, as well as spaces). > > Ummm, GNU emacs comes with a perfectly good one, isearch-forward. If > you type a return at it while it is prompting for a search string, it > mathces that jsut like any other character. What? You say you have > search-exit-char bound to return? Then just quote a newline with > ^Q^J. I thought that he meant something like an interactive word search, looking for a phrase that is broken (at some unknown word boundary) over a line -- not looking for a string containing newlines at known places. You can do it with re-search-forward, typing "[ \t\n]+" after each word boundary, but of course that's a pain. Or, you can do it with word search -- but that's not interactive. It ought to be a routine hack on isearch or isearch-regexp to write. -- Bard the (lambda (x) (gargoyle))
asp@lancelot.avalon.cs.cmu.edu (James Aspnes) (01/19/89)
In article <2922@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU> pausch@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Randy Pausch) writes:
Does anyone have a GNUemacs lisp function handy that allows incremental
string searches to wrap over lines? (I guess this would involve
converting the string search to a regular expression search, so that
the newlines would match, as well as spaces).
Isearch will do this, you just have to quote newlines using C-q.
E.g.: foo^Q^Jbar matches
fjfjfjekf foo
bar
-- hrp@hall.cray.com (Hal Peterson) (01/19/89)
In article <2922@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>, pausch@uvacs (Randy Pausch) writes:
Does anyone have a GNUemacs lisp function handy that allows incremental
string searches to wrap over lines?
It already does. To insert a newline into the search string, you must
quote it with C-q; so to look for the line in your posting that ends
with ``incremental'' and is followed by a line beginning with
``string'', you might type
C-s t a l C-q C-j s t r
Notice that newlines in files on UNIX systems are represented by the
C-j character, so that's what you have to put in your search string.liberte@m.cs.uiuc.edu (01/20/89)
> In article <2922@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>, pausch@uvacs (Randy Pausch) writes: > >Does anyone have a GNUemacs lisp function handy that allows incremental > >string searches to wrap over lines? > > Ummm, GNU emacs comes with a perfectly good one, isearch-forward. > > p.s. There are also incremental regexp searches (isearch-*-regexp) in > case you were wondering. > jr@bbn.com or bbn!jr What he wants is a little different. Any space in the string should also be able to match a newline, or more generally, any whitespace. This is just isearch-forward-regexp, except with added convenience. A variable option could automatically replace space with [ \t\n\r\f]+ or, better, \\s-+. Dan LaLiberte uiucdcs!liberte liberte@cs.uiuc.edu liberte%a.cs.uiuc.edu@uiucvmd.bitnet
merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) (01/20/89)
In article <2922@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>, pausch@uvacs (Randy Pausch) writes: | Does anyone have a GNUemacs lisp function handy that allows incremental | string searches to wrap over lines? (I guess this would involve | converting the string search to a regular expression search, so that | the newlines would match, as well as spaces). | | Thanks, | | pausch@virginia.edu Or, you can just invoke ESC-^S (isearch-forward-regexp), and put "\W+" where you want whitespace. I do that all the time. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 on contract to BiiN (for now :-), Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. <merlyn@intelob.intel.com> or ...!tektronix!biin!merlyn HEADER ADDRESS MAY BE UNREPLYABLE if it says merlyn@intelob.biin.com ... Standard disclaimer: I *am* my employer!