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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 23:07:49 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 22:31:55 +0200
> 
> >> 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?
> 
> dired-do-query-replace-regexp works like normal 'M-%' with 'y/n/!'
> keys and automatically moves to the next file on multiple files.
> So it seemes it doesn't need a key to continue the loop.

AFAIR, it does need a way to continue the loop if the user exits the
loop.