Subject: Re: bug#24977: 25.1; search and query-replace in Dired

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 20:17:32 +0200

On 21.11.2016 19:41, Drew Adams wrote:

> * Any multiline regexp.

We obviously can't support those.

> * Any regexp that is outside what the current `grep' syntax uses.

Those should be doable, as long as the regexp contains at least 
_something_ else. So if we identify the examples that are actually 
important, that would speed things along.