Re: Matches for multiline regexps

[Juri Linkov]

> When not displaying context, it should display each line that contains
> any part of one or more matches.  It should not display any line more
> than once.
>
> When context lines are specified, it is less clear.  One idea is to
> display each group of lines that contains a match, plus context around
> it.  When there are multiple matches within one line, that line should
> only appear once.

The current duplicating of context lines of consecutive matched lines
is too inconvenient.  It really should work like grep or diff, and
to join consecutive lines with their context lines into one block.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/