From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23426: 25.0.93; dired-do-find-regexp doesn't find newline Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 19:18:06 +0300 Message-ID: <837ffbktdt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <57278BA0.6010604@h-rommerskirchen.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462292424 18256 80.91.229.3 (3 May 2016 16:20:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 16:20:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 23426@debbugs.gnu.org, heinz@h-rommerskirchen.de, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 03 18:20:12 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1axd32-00008R-LF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 18:19:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42132 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axd2x-0002IL-2W for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 12:19:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39468) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axd2a-0001hS-Nx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 12:19:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axd2P-0004Mj-2P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 12:19:11 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:51428) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axd2O-0004LT-UV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 12:19:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1axd2L-0008NM-Jg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 12:19:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 16:19:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 23426 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 23426-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B23426.146229231732162 (code B ref 23426); Tue, 03 May 2016 16:19:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 23426) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 May 2016 16:18:37 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35532 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1axd1w-0008Mf-RP for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 12:18:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48174) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1axd1v-0008MT-Kc for 23426@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 12:18:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axd1h-00042w-4k for 23426@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 12:18:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54955) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axd1U-0003xe-TZ; Tue, 03 May 2016 12:18:08 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4579 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1axd1N-0000RK-3w; Tue, 03 May 2016 12:18:01 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Mon, 02 May 2016 21:18:42 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:117644 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Mon, 02 May 2016 21:18:42 -0400 > Cc: 23426@debbugs.gnu.org, Heinz Rommerskirchen > > 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.