title: How can I get vim find to ignore whitespace?
body: <p>I have XML entries that span two or more lines sometimes, and so I can look for something like this: </p>
  
  <pre><code>something on one line
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But if I try the vim command <code>/something on one line</code> and the line is like this: </p>
  
  <pre><code>something on one 
  line
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>then it doesn't find it, because the second text block is actually seen as</p>
  
  <pre><code>something on one^J           line
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which might have something to do with the fact that I'm using a DOS formatted file. </p>
  
  <p>How can I get vim search to ignore whitespace and newlines? </p>