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26.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps

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Message #119 received at 31796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: abela <at> chalmers.se, 31796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find
 multiline regexps
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:42:32 +0300

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> [2020-11-30 18:31]:
> > 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?

It is possible to combine with sed:
https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Text-search-across-multiple-lines.html

https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Multiline-techniques.html#Multiline-techniques

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