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Re: Searching for lines longer than x characters possible?


From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Searching for lines longer than x characters possible?
Date: 08 Nov 2002 12:12:46 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

>>>>> "David" == David List <david@davidlist.dk> writes:
> I would like to go through some program source files before converting them
> to ps, to check for lines longer than, for instance, 80 characters, so that
> I don't get strange looking ps files.

If you really mean 80chars, then C-u C-s ^.\{81\} should do the trick.
If you mean 80columns, it's trickier (unless you have no TABs or things
like that, such that it reduces to the 80chars problem).


        Stefan


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