From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f8362,903de1597bba5a2e X-Google-Attributes: gidf8362,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,903de1597bba5a2e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: Search Up Date: 2000/11/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 698252802 Sender: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) References: <3A1BF2E3.F2C51F59@worldnet.att.net> <3A1BE4CA.24196926@crypt0.demon.co.uk> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Newsgroups: comp.theory,comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Hugo van der Sanden writes: >...In that case, you might want to do the > best you can by searching backwards a line at a time until you find a > line that matches, ... An editor ought to be able to search for strings (or regexps) that contain multiple lines. Emacs can do this, for example. - Bob