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bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multilin


From: Andreas Abel
Subject: bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 10:09:38 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.4.3

The dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace command does not seem to parse the regex entered by the user correctly. If the regex string contains a newline character (^Q^J), it seems that the parsing stops there. At least I have seen errors like "unmatched bracket" and the like.

Anyhow, I did not get it to replace multiline text. I found an answer here:


https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/30437/dired-search-and-replace-is-throwing-no-results

The solution is to manually invoke dired-do-query-replace-regexp (instead of pressing just Q).

However, this solution is hard to discover, because it is unexpected that the official regex-replace feature (key Q) contains such a blunder.

- Why isn't the more robust

  dired-do-query-replace-regexp

bound to Q?

- Why not fix the bug in dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace? It has been reported for version 26 already, and it is not a minor issue. Replacing interactively in several files is an **extremely** useful feature, and I would not want to do something like that outside of emacs.

Thanks for all the good work going into emacs.

Best,
Andreas

P.S.: Your approach to issue tracking (by email) must be considered stone-age by now. How about switching to GitHub / GitLab or the like?

(Unless you want to keep the bar up, of course. But this is hardly in the spirit of open source.)

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Andreas Abel  <><      Du bist der geliebte Mensch.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden

andreas.abel@gu.se
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~abela/





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