RE: Regex Problem

[Drew Adams]

> > You can, but you should most definitely not.  It just makes the text
> > hard to read or edit in anything other than Emacs.  Just use \n.
> 
> That's a good point, I didn't think about that.
> 
> However, whenever I try to use \n in my regex searches, emacs does not
> seem to recognize that as a newline. the regexp syntax documentation
> also does not seem to mention any way to refer to a newline.
> Am I just missing something?

Interactively (e.g. C-M-s), you must use an actual newline character (via C-q
j), not \n.