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

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 12:32:27 -0800 (PST)

> > >  Multiple > Search >
> > >    Query Replace Using TAGS Table...   M-q
> > >    Query Replace Using `find'...       Q
> >
> > dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace could be left bound to Q, but
> > dired-do-query-replace-regexp could be bound to M-% in Dired.
> 
> How will this help when the command to continue the loop is not bound
> to any key?

I don't understand the question.  And which
command?  Are you asking how to use `M-q'
(`dired-do-query-replace-regexp')?

Are you saying that even though Emacs has kept
`dired-do-query-replace-regexp' it's no longer
usable for some reason?

> We didn't just change the binding of Q without a good reason.

So you say.  I've already disagreed that the
reason given was a good one.  IMHO, the new
command should have been given a new key.

Regardless of whether the existing key `Q'
should have been usurped, its previous command
still exists, and it seems to still be usable
and useful.  If so, what is wrong with giving
it its own key binding (`M-q' in my case)?