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

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 21:50:29 +0200

On 21.11.2016 20:51, Drew Adams wrote:

> I have no argument with the new commands.  My argument is to keep
> the old commands as well, with their bindings and menu items, and
> to give the new commands new bindings and new menu items.

Because that wouldn't be confusing. Either the menu items will look 
almost the same (but perform slightly differently), or they will have to 
be very long, to describe the difference.

> When you kinda sorta sometimes
> get behavior that is similar to what you might expect (e.g. from
> the regexp alone), the actual behavior can be all the more
> confusing if this difference is not described clearly.

Indeed. But careful handling of uncertain cases and showing user-error 
for tricky regexps should make the behavior make sense.