GNU bug report logs - #23429
25.0.90; `dired-do-find-regexp' doc string

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 17:59:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.0.90

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 23429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 23429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23429: 25.0.90; `dired-do-find-regexp' doc string
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 21:09:08 +0300

On 05/02/2016 08:57 PM, Drew Adams wrote:

> If what you mean is that the marked files in a marked _subdirectory_
> are searched, and so on for its marked subdirs, recursively - then
> say so.

Care to propose an exact wording?

> If you don't mean something like that then I cannot imagine what this
> means.  How can a _file_ (marked or not) be searched recursively?

A file can be a directory, in Emacs and in general Unix parlance.

Those marked files that are, are searched recursively. The regular files 
are searched, period.
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