[CLOSED] Multiline selections should be auto-converted Find/Replace in Files

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Issue by redmunds
Friday Jun 20, 2014 at 23:14 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#8211

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Multiple line search arguments are allowed for Find/Replace in Files, but they must be in regex format. Since search argument fields are pre-populated from current selection, it would be nice if newlines in selected text were converted to "\n" string instead of just being removed, and also on regex flag is turned on.

Also, we should think of a way to insert newlines via "replace with" text.

For example:

1. Start with this text in page:

   aaa
   bbb
   ccc
   

2. Select range starting with "aaa" and ending with "bbb"

3. Find > Replace in Selected File/Folder

4. The newline is removed from the selelction and the search argument is pre-populated to "aaabbb". Would be nice if the newline was replaced with "\n" so it was "aaa\nbbb". Also, regex flag should be turned on (if not on already)

5. I'd also like to put something like "yyy\nzzz" in the "Replace With" field to have 2 lines inserted.