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bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multilin
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:16:26 -0800 (PST) |
> The dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace command does not seem
> to parse the regex entered by the user correctly. If the
> regex string contains a newline character (^Q^J), it seems
> that the parsing stops there. At least I have seen errors
> like "unmatched bracket" and the like.
>
> Anyhow, I did not get it to replace multiline text.
> I found an answer here:
>
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/30437/dired-search-and-replace-is-throwing-no-results
>
> The solution is to manually invoke
> dired-do-query-replace-regexp (instead of pressing just Q).
>
> However, this solution is hard to discover, because it is
> unexpected that the official regex-replace feature (key Q)
> contains such a blunder.
>
> - Why isn't the more robust dired-do-query-replace-regexp
> bound to Q?
It _was_ bound to `Q' - for decades. But the inventor
of `dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace' decided to give
that binding to his command. (I argued in vain in
favor of giving the new command a different binding,
keeping `Q' as it was. Similarly for `A'.)
> - Why not fix the bug in dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace?
> It has been reported for version 26 already, and it is not
> a minor issue. Replacing interactively in several files is
> an **extremely** useful feature, and I would not want to
> do something like that outside of emacs.
+1.
___
FWIW, Dired+ binds `dired-do-query-replace-regexp'
to `M-q' (respecting the new binding of `Q' to
`dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace', though I
disagree with it). And Dired+ has both commands
on the menus:
Multiple > Search >
Query Replace Using TAGS Table... M-q
Query Replace Using `find'... Q
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredPlus
- bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps, Andreas Abel, 2020/11/23
- bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/23
- bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/24
- bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps, Drew Adams, 2020/11/24
- bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps, Juri Linkov, 2020/11/24
- bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps, Drew Adams, 2020/11/24
- bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/24