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bug#23426: 25.0.93; dired-do-find-regexp doesn't find newline


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: bug#23426: 25.0.93; dired-do-find-regexp doesn't find newline
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 21:23:09 +0300
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On 05/02/2016 08:17 PM, Heinz Rommerskirchen wrote:

dired-do-find-regexp can't find matches for a regexp containing newline.
To trigger the bug:
- start "emacs -Q"
- open "/usr/local/share/emacs/25.0.93/etc/" in dired
- mark the file NEWS and maybe a few more
- type "A C-q C-j C-q C-j"
- there is a message in the echo area: "No matches for:

"
In former versions of Emacs (e.g. 24.5.1) this same recipe brought you
to the first empty line in one of the marked files.

I don't know if it's possible to search for "A^J^J" using find+grep, and it's the implementation choice for this function.

On the one hand, it limits the variety of the regexp you can use. On the other hand, you can get results faster, and you can search inside directories (dired-do-search only searches within regular files and silently skips any marked directories).





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