Re: Regex Problem

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Thr4wn <Seth.A.Bird@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

You're not.  \n is in fact not part of the regexp syntax.  It's part
of the lisp string syntax.  It's the same reason you need to use only
one \ interactively, but two in lisp.

By the way, if you are designing regular expressions, it's usually
easier to use `re-builder' than interactive search.


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher