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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: abela <at> chalmers.se, 31796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 23:07:49 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Cc: drew.adams <at> oracle.com,  abela <at> chalmers.se,  31796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 22:31:55 +0200
> 
> >> dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace could be left bound to Q, but
> >> dired-do-query-replace-regexp could be bound to M-% in Dired.
> >
> > How will this help when the command to continue the loop is not bound
> > to any key?
> 
> dired-do-query-replace-regexp works like normal 'M-%' with 'y/n/!'
> keys and automatically moves to the next file on multiple files.
> So it seemes it doesn't need a key to continue the loop.

AFAIR, it does need a way to continue the loop if the user exits the
loop.

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