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


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:30:22 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com,  abela@chalmers.se,  31796@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:18:28 +0200
> 
> > the command that was previously bound to Q used the UI that is very
> > similar to find-tag: you are presented with the first hit, and then go
> > to the next one, and the one after it, etc.  "Exiting the loop" can be
> > as simple as moving point or switching to another buffer to consult
> > some other part of Emacs.  It is very natural.  Once you've done that,
> > you'd want to resume the loop.
> 
> Would adding `M-s a M-C-%' help users who want the old behavior back?
> Or a keybinding for `fileloop-continue' is needed as well?

I'd prefer not to add fileloop-continue back in any shape or form.
I'd like us to fix the current binding of Q so that it supports
everything the previous command did.  Bringing back the commands we
obsoleted is counter-productive.





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