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

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:26:10 -0500

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  > AFAIU, there's already such an option: -b.  However, byte-to-position
  > works only with UTF-8 encoded files; we need filepos-to-bufferpos

Oops.

  > (which requires to know the file's encoding, so we are back at the
  > same problem).

If you're going to look at the contents of the file, you have to
visit it, which means you'll know which encoding to use for that file.

Does that make it work?

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