searching that wrap over lines

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From: Randy Pausch
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1989 16:10

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Does anyone have a GNUemacs lisp function handy that allows incremental
string searches to wrap over lines?  (I guess this would involve 
converting the string search to a regular expression search, so that
the newlines would match, as well as spaces).

Thanks,  

     pausch@virginia.edu

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From: pausch@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Randy Pausch)
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Subject: searching that wrap over lines
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Date: 18 Jan 89 16:10:42 GMT
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