Re: query-replace?

[Lennart Borgman]

> > ii. Is it possible to include newlines in regexps? I have a five line
> > header on each page that begins with same characters on 1st line  and 
> > ends
> > with same on last line. What is the most automated method of  
> > deleting just
> > these lines?
>
>
> C-q C-j.

Maybe the question was about multiple lines, not the newline character? 
Then perhaps

   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MultilineRegexp

can help?