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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, rms <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: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 19:17:06 +0200

On 02.12.2020 16:56, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The point is that our heuristics for detecting encoding is not
> perfect, so it could fail.

Do you imagine Grep could use a more reliable detection algorithm?

Although... since it has to scan the full file anyway, it could first do 
a quick detection, and then maybe rescan from the beginning if the 
encoding turns out to be something else.
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