From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 23426@debbugs.gnu.org, heinz@h-rommerskirchen.de, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: bug#23426: 25.0.93; dired-do-find-regexp doesn't find newline
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 19:18:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837ffbktdt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bdr3dkym4t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Mon, 02 May 2016 21:18:42 -0400)
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 02 May 2016 21:18:42 -0400
> Cc: 23426@debbugs.gnu.org, Heinz Rommerskirchen <heinz@h-rommerskirchen.de>
>
> Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>
> >> - type "A C-q C-j C-q C-j"
> [...]
> >> 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.
>
> (The fact that it uses grep should perhaps be documented, since it
> affects what one can search for.)
I added that to the doc string. I'm much less inclined to state this
ion the manual, as this seems to be a subtle implementation detail,
and is probably subject to change.
> For this specific example, a grep-ish way to find empty lines is '^$'.
> However, using "A" to search for that (or the empty regexp) causes Emacs
> to hang indefinitely. :(
That's a bug that should be fixed, for sure.
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-02 17:17 bug#23426: 25.0.93; dired-do-find-regexp doesn't find newline Heinz Rommerskirchen
2016-05-02 17:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-02 17:45 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-02 18:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-03 1:18 ` Glenn Morris
2016-05-03 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-05-03 23:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-03 17:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-03 19:00 ` Glenn Morris
2016-05-03 20:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-04 2:05 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-04 2:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-04 4:24 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-04 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<838tzpkgtj.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-05-04 15:31 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-04 15:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-04 16:04 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-04 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83r3dhizis.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-05-04 16:32 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-04 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 5:00 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-04 10:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-04 13:32 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-04 13:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-04 15:31 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-04 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<6a4860bb-2b39-4da4-b2a7-7b8d15211fee@default>
[not found] ` <<831t5hkg6x.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-05-04 15:39 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-04 15:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-04 16:10 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-04 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 16:20 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-04 16:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-04 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 18:06 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-04 16:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-04 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <<<CAFyQvY0KYfeg9-f8DiCJcEy5-W=yRFykLLpCHRtCeqzz9Bdi0g@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <<3ba077a2-21e0-9799-4f8b-c07bd1623853@yandex.ru>
[not found] ` <<<6a4860bb-2b39-4da4-b2a7-7b8d15211fee@default>
[not found] ` <<<831t5hkg6x.fsf@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <<7da95e19-50ff-4ca5-a5b8-2a7f65c2a7cd@default>
[not found] ` <<6cf9e2bf-fa90-3783-b30a-9021074790b0@yandex.ru>
[not found] ` <<93badbbc-31f6-409d-8dff-d67e9202deca@default>
[not found] ` <<83lh3piyvq.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-05-04 16:23 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <<83oa8liz53.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-05-04 16:39 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-04 18:20 ` John Wiegley
2016-05-04 20:09 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-04 21:13 ` John Wiegley
2016-05-05 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-05 23:44 ` John Wiegley
2016-05-05 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-05 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
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