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bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multilin
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Nov 2020 17:22:07 +0200 |
> Cc: abela@chalmers.se, 31796@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 04:30:14 +0200
>
> For instance, a number of character classes in Emacs regexps are
> dependent on the syntax table. Like [:word:], for instance.
>
> Even [:space:] is dependent on syntax, while it matches a fixed set of
> characters in Grep. So when searching across different file types we
> can't even "expand" such constructs into concrete characters to search for.
It isn't clear to me which interpretation users will want. I don't
think there's a single answer.
> Someone should try it, but it's a fair amount of work to handle all
> supported constructs, and to catch all (most?) the regexps which we
> can't support in this mode.
FWIW, I think this is much less important than the embedded newline
support.
- bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps, (continued)
- 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
- 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, 2020/11/25
- bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/25
- bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps, Juri Linkov, 2020/11/25
- bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/25
- bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/11/28
- bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps,
Eli Zaretskii <=
bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/11/23
- 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, 2020/11/24
- bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/11/24
- 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, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/11/24
- 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, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/11/29