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Possible to search and replace a paragraph?

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Nobody/Anonymous
2006-01-15
2012-11-13

  • Nobody/Anonymous

    Nobody/Anonymous - 2006-01-15

    First off, Notepad++ is my favorite text editor - excellent work!

    I'm wondering if it is possible to search for a paragraph of text across multiple files and then replace that paragraph with a new one?  Searching and replacing a single line of text seems to be no problem, but I'm not sure how to do a paragraph.  Not looking forward to searching and replacing each individual line of a paragraph.  ;)

    Thanks!

     

    • Nobody/Anonymous

      Nobody/Anonymous - 2007-08-29

      Try ctrl + r to open the advanced search and replace editor.  They say to use ctrl + m for multiple lines.

       

      • pshute

        pshute - 2007-08-30

        "Try ctrl + r to open the advanced search and replace editor. They say to use ctrl + m for multiple lines. "

        That's how I would do it, but note that this doesn't work in regex mode.  See http://notepad-plus.wiki.sourceforge.net/FindReplaceNewlineHowTo for other options.