Subject: Re: bug#23426: 25.0.93; dired-do-find-regexp doesn't find newline

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 13:32:41 +0300

On 05/04/2016 08:00 AM, Kaushal Modi wrote:

> @Dmitry So does emacs revert to the old function if grep/find is not
> found on the system?

Not currently, no.

> What happens if the system doesn't have either of
> those two.

You go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/, and 
install them. Or avoid using the new features (which aren't limited to 
the commands bound to A and Q in Dired).

Or submit a patch that adds a fallback to xref-collect-matches to open 
all files and parse them in Emacs. I think we'd accept it.

But installing grep and find will work better anyway.