Dired search and replace is throwing no results

Question

I am trying to quickly search and replace in multiple files using dired. The steps I follow are from this question (Chris Conway's and Frank Henard's answers), I am pretty sure the instructions are correct since it seems like I am the only person having this problem.

To simplify the problem, the steps I am doing are as follows:

• Open a folder in dired
• Mark a file with m
• Q to search and replace in the marked file, this command will ask for two arguments, in the search query argument I type div, and in the replacement query argument I type foo (to replace div with foo).

After I do these simple steps, the search throws no results, the buffer says:

No matches for: div

I know plenty divs are spreaded all over the file. Perhaps I am not entering the arguments in the correct format, I tryed many things, like enclosing the string in quotes or double quotes, and running emacs with the -q argument in the shell to disable my dotfile. The instructions looked pretty simple, I don't know what I am doing wrong.

Emacs version: 25.1.1

Answer 1

As @phils said in a comment, Emacs 25.1 no longer uses dired-do-query-replace-regexp for Q. It uses dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace for Q.

(It shouldn't, IMHO, but it does.)

Try M-x dired-do-query-replace-regexp. If that works, you can just bind it to Q to have Q act the same as it used to.