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

[Jean Louis]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2020-11-30 18:31]:
> > Cc: abela@chalmers.se, 31796@debbugs.gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 04:25:31 +0200
> > 
> > To sum up, there are options, but I don't see a working solution that is 
> > based on GNU Grep. And that's the most portable search program we have, 
> > I think.
> 
> Maybe we should say that if someone wants to be able to find multiline
> regexp, they should install ripgrep?

Does this help?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3717772/regex-grep-for-multi-line-search-needed#7167115