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@node Regular expressions
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@chapter Regular expressions
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@helpsection{REGEX}
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@medit{} uses regular expressions functionality provided by Glib, which in turn uses
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@uref{http://pcre.org/, PCRE} library. See
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@uref{http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-regex-syntax.html, Glib manual}
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for complete description of regular expression syntax.
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Regular expression searches in a document text are limited to single lines, unless the
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search pattern includes newline character. For example, pattern "@code{.*}" will match every
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line in the document, pattern "@code{.*\n.*}" will match pairs of consecutive lines. This means
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that it is mostly impossible to perform searches for text which spawns multiple lines.
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