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: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 03:23:00 +0200

On 30.11.2020 17:42, Jean Louis wrote:
> 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

It's pretty much Chinese to me, sorry.

Can you write a sed search script like that that outputs in the expected 
format?

Meaning,

  FILE_NAME\0LINE_NUMBER_1:MATCH_LINE_1
  ...
  LINE_NUMBER_N:MATCH_LINE_N
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