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Re: [External] : Re: How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines?


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Subject: Re: [External] : Re: How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines?
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 06:07:46 +0100

On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 07:46:38PM +0000, Drew Adams wrote:
> > You might enjoy agrep, then. If you want to go further, do some
> > research on weighted Levenshtein distance (there /is/ an elisp
> > function named `string-distance` for you, then).
> 
> (Caveat: Not following this thread.)
> 
> FYI, there is Elisp library `levenshtein.el':
> 
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/levenshtein.el

Now to find the differences to the built-in `string-distance'. So much
to do ;-)

> (FYI2: Icicles uses that library, if you have it:

(why not the built-in? Did it came later, or is it less useful?)

Thanks
-- 
t

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