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

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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, 24 Nov 2020 21:43:22 +0200

On 24.11.2020 18:35, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: 31796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
>> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 17:43:53 +0200
>>
>> We've been aware of it for at least two years now. So what are we, then,
>> negligent, careless, or incompetent?
> 
> Busy.  That, and the fact that no one came up with a clear idea of how
> to fix this (at least IIRC).

How about https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=31796#23 ?

Someone more familiar with existing ports of Grep on different systems 
should weigh in on it.

>> If you're saying we can't afford to break even a minor feature like
>> this, I don't think there are a lot of options.
> 
> We should try not to break any features, yes.

That's just common sense.

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