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Re: Searching text
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Rudolf Adamkovič |
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Re: Searching text |
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Wed, 04 Sep 2024 01:39:58 +0200 |
Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> writes:
> I need to search for phrases like 'others contend' within a buffer, even
> when they span across multiple lines.
Me too. From my Emacs config:
Search across spaces, tabs, and newlines.
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results none
(with-eval-after-load 'isearch
(setq isearch-lax-whitespace t
isearch-regexp-lax-whitespace t
search-whitespace-regexp "[ \t\r\n]+"))
#+END_SRC
Works well. Enjoy!
Rudy
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