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In article <FRANL.92Dec16131850@draco.centerline.com>
franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio) writes:

> pot@fly.cnuce.cnr.it (Francesco Potorti`) writes:
> 
> > In emacs 18.59 info, node Search Changes, one can read:
> > 
> >    The most important change in incremental search is that RET now
> > terminates a search, and ESC does not. [ ... ]
> > 
> >      (This change is somewhat of an experiment; it might be taken back
> >      by the time Emacs 19 is really released.)
> 
> So how does one incrementally search for text that includes a newline?

You can type C-q in isearch to quote a character; e.g. in your article
I searched sucesfully for "?^J-" by typing C-s ? C-q C-j.

I have changed the search-exit-char to C-m myself when I heard about
this some time ago and I am very happy with this change. I always
found it really annoying that in isearch an inadvertently typed
function key destroyed my text. This is *especially* annoying when you
haven't even noticed it and the compiler issues strange error messages
about code that you didn't intend to modify.

BTW, what I use *is* Emacs 18.59, I am a little puzzled by the
original poster's statement about finding this in the info of 18.59. I
did *not* find it in 18.59's info, and I believe that this is a
statement of Jamie Zawinski about Lucid Emacs.

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Juergen Nickelsen