Stan Ryckman suggested to Rocke Robertson,
| If you want to worry about "dear" at the end of one line, and "friend"
| at the start of the next, you could try something like:
| :0B
| * ()\<dear *($)? *friend\>
|
| OK, that'll match "dearfriend" too but I'm a bit lazy today :-)
It's easy enough to rule out "dearfriend":
* ()\<dear( |$)+friend\>
or take a page from Rik Kabel:
* ()\<dear(\<)+friend\>
In any case, I think the left anchoring in Rocke's original recipe (rather
than overlooking the chance of medial newlines) was probably the trouble.
It wouldn't match on text like "My dear friend."