Newlines in regexps

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From: David Smith
Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 03:23

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I seem to be having a little trouble with regexps that require newlines. 
Say for example I want to convert standard quotes (like "arglebarge")
into TeX-style quotes (like ``arglebarge''), but where the quote can
span one ore more lines. I've tried things like regexp-replacing
"\(\(^J\|.\)*\)" with ``\1'', but the newline seems to cause problems.
Of course, to get the newline I have to use quoted-insert, but when
I enter it it clears the minibuffer (but it still gets inserted into
the regexp). But the above regexp still doesn't work!

I guess what I am really asking is: is there an easy way to put newlines
in regexps?

Dave.

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|David Smith                                <dsmith@spam.ua.oz.au>|
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