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

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 03:24:01 +0200

On 30.11.2020 17:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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?

We could do that, indeed.

Certainly better than not having that feature at all.