Subject: bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps

From: Jean Louis <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:39:33 +0300

* Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> [2020-11-30 18:31]:
> > Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 04:25:31 +0200
> > 
> > To sum up, there are options, but I don't see a working solution that is 
> > based on GNU Grep. And that's the most portable search program we have, 
> > I think.
> 
> Maybe we should say that if someone wants to be able to find multiline
> regexp, they should install ripgrep?

Does this help?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3717772/regex-grep-for-multi-line-search-needed#7167115