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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 30.11.2020 17:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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?

We could do that, indeed.

Certainly better than not having that feature at all.