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


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 17:20:47 +0200
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On 01.12.2020 10:36, Juri Linkov wrote:
It is possible to combine with sed:
https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Text-search-across-multiple-lines.html
https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Multiline-techniques.html#Multiline-techniques

It's pretty much Chinese to me, sorry.

When I need to grep in multi-line mode I use Ruby, but its modifiers
differ from Perl:

https://regular-expressions.mobi/ruby.html
   /m makes the dot match newlines.  Ruby indeed uses /m, whereas Perl and
   many other programming languages use /s for “dot matches newlines”.

https://www.regular-expressions.info/modifiers.html
   (?s) for “single line mode” makes the dot match all characters,
        including line breaks.  Not supported by Ruby or JavaScript.
   (?m) for “multi-line mode” makes the caret and dollar match at the start
        and end of each line in the subject string.  In Ruby, (?m) makes the
        dot match all characters, without affecting the caret and dollar which
        always match at the start and end of each line in Ruby.

Ruby's much easier for me, of course, but it doesn't have the same advantage of ubiquity that awk (and, to a lesser extent, perl) have.

Either way, someone would need to write that script.





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