sed: working with multi-line patterns
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Sed principally works with single lines.
To allow multi-line replacements, use the N option.
sed 'N; s/from\ncontinued/from...continued/' file.txt
Removing all the new lines:
sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g'
With perl
One can achieve the same with perl:
perl -0pe 's/from\n/to/' file.txt
where -0 tells perl to match NUL character instead of new lines.