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

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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: 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 03:24:01 +0200

On 30.11.2020 17:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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?

We could do that, indeed.

Certainly better than not having that feature at all.
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