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

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 21:39:24 +0200

On 24.11.2020 21:29, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> dired-do-query-replace-regexp doesn't work with Tramp.
> Really?  I checked it and see no problems

Sorry, a clarification: it doesn't work on directories.

Which seems to be a conscious choice because with how dired-do-search 
and dired-do-query-replace-regexp are implementented, it would take a 
lot of time even when there are not too many files in such a directory. 
It has to copy each file to the local machine before doing the search.

dired-do-find-regexp and dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace handle 
directories just fine, however.