Search In Notepad++

[Nobody/Anonymous]

This is the only real flaw I have found in Notepad++ and that is that when searching you cannot search for something with a new line, for instance:

If I wanted to search for "hello
e
v
e
r
y
o
n
e"

I couldn't do it.  Or If I wanted to search for a word and then replace it with a new line or some text and a new line I couldn't do it.

This is just a sort of suggestion for later versions.

Great programme though.

[Leonardo Jr.]

Still, you can do it with the advanced file/replace, but you can't apply that replacement to a group of files (like we can replace in all open documents). And that's a life saver sometimes...
There's any way i can do that in notepad++ (i need to replace chuncks of HTML code in some pages)?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Use a free text block replacer for that, like textrep:
http://www.free-to-try.com/textrep

As long as you don't need regex this will do. Of course, there are other tools that can perform similar or even more difficult tasks.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

You are wrong. You CAN search for and add newline characters.
Use the CTRL+R advanced Find/Replace dialog.

You can enter newline characters here by pressing CTRL+M or CTRL+Enter and also tab characters by pressing CTRL+I.

In regex mode it is possible to add tabs by (re)placing \t and I believe newlines will also work with \r\n.

[pshute]

I'm not sure about the \t and \r\n but I haven't tried it for a few versions.  Please see http://notepad-plus.wiki.sourceforge.net/FindReplaceNewlineHowTo for everything I know about this topic and if you find that those characters do work now then please correct that article.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Thanks!  Notepad++ is amazing!