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

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: abela <at> chalmers.se, 31796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 16:56:34 +0200

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: abela <at> chalmers.se, 31796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
> Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:26:10 -0500
> 
>   > AFAIU, there's already such an option: -b.  However, byte-to-position
>   > works only with UTF-8 encoded files; we need filepos-to-bufferpos
> 
> Oops.
> 
>   > (which requires to know the file's encoding, so we are back at the
>   > same problem).
> 
> If you're going to look at the contents of the file, you have to
> visit it, which means you'll know which encoding to use for that file.

The point is that our heuristics for detecting encoding is not
perfect, so it could fail.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.