GNU bug report logs - #31796
26.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Žygimantas Bruzgys <me <at> zygi.xyz>

Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 07:56:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 26.1

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: abela <at> chalmers.se, 31796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:30:20 +0200

> Cc: abela <at> chalmers.se, 31796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> 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?
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