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RE: Regex Problem
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Drew Adams |
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RE: Regex Problem |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:57:19 -0700 |
> > 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.