GNU bug report logs - #23426
25.0.93; dired-do-find-regexp doesn't find newline

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Heinz Rommerskirchen <heinz <at> h-rommerskirchen.de>

Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 17:19:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 24305

Found in versions 25.0.93, 25.1

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 23426 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 23426 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Heinz Rommerskirchen <heinz <at> h-rommerskirchen.de>
Subject: Re: bug#23426: 25.0.93; dired-do-find-regexp doesn't find newline
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 15:00:15 -0400

Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> On 05/03/2016 04:18 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
>
>> For this specific example, a grep-ish way to find empty lines is '^$'.
>
> You can't search for an empty line following a letter 'A' this way, though.

No, but that's not what the OP's example was.
(The "A" is the keybinding that triggers the search, not part of the search.)

There is "grep -z" for multi-line searches, BTW, but it's a bit clunky.
Also "pcregrep".
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