matches newline: in regular expressions, with this disabled, the regular expression. ☐ Regular Expression: uses the Boost regular expression engine to perform very power search and replace actions, as explained in Regular Expressions (below).☐ Extended (\n, \r, \t, \0, \x…): use certain “wildcards”, as described in Extended Search Mode (below).☐ Normal: all text is treated literally.Search Mode: this determines how the text in the Find what and Replace with will be treated ☐ Wrap Around: if enabled, when the search reaches the end of the document, it will wrap around to the beginning and continue searching The regular expression i flag will override this checkbox, where (?i) will make the search case insensitive, and (?-i) will make the search case sensitive.
☐ Match case: if enabled, searches must match in case (so a search for “it” will not find “It” or “IT”). ☐ Match whole word only: if enabled, searches will only match if the result is a whole word (so “it” will not be found inside “hitch”) ☐ Backward direction: normally, searches go forward (down the page) with this option, they will go backward (up the page) ☐ In selection: If you have a region of text selected, and In selection is enabled, it will only Count, Replace All, or Mark All within that selection of text, rather than in the whole document (other buttons, such as Find Next, will continue to work on the whole document) Replace with edit box with dropdown history: this is the text that will replace what was matched Find what edit box with dropdown history: this is the text you are searching for.Find / Replace tabsĪll the dialog-based have certain features in common, though some are disabled under certain circumstances. Note: Search option choices made by the user are remembered across invocations of Notepad++. This may be achieved by use of the optional setting: Preferences > Searching > Find dialog remains open after search that outputs to results window. Some users dislike this and wish for the “Find” window to always remain open. Note: Use of some “Find” family features can cause the window to close after a successful search (one or more “hits”). Note: Although a keyboard command can open and/or move input focus to one of the tabs of the “Find” window, once this input focus is achieved, there is no possibility to switch to another of the tabs via the keyboard the mouse must be used, or the window closed (via the Escape key) and the alternate tab’s keyboard shortcut (or menu command) then invoked. It can be invoked directly with Search > Mark or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+M. Mark tab: Allows you to highlight all occurrences of the search target in the current document permanently. It can be invoked over the context menu of the first line of a Project Panel. It can be invoked directly with Search > Find in Files or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+F.įind in Projects tab: Similar to Find in Files, but Project Panel files are used instead of files from a directory. The files used for the operation are specified by a directory. It can be invoked directly with Search > Replace or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+H.įind in Files tab: Allows you to search and replace in multiple files with one action.
Replace tab: Similar to Find tab, but allows you to replace the matched text after it’s found. It can be invoked directly with Search > Find or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F. This dialog box has one tab for each of the following features:įind tab: Gives access to searching and counting. You can see the active shortcut for any menu item in the menu entry, or in the Shortcut Mapper. There are three main built-in search mechanisms: the standard (dialog-based) Find / Replace / Find In Files / Mark, the dialog-free Next / Previous search-navigation, and the Incremental Search.Īll keyboard shortcuts mentioned below are the default values, but are configurable in the Shortcut Mapper. Generating a count of matches is also possible.
You can also mark search results with a bookmark on their lines, or highlight the textual results themselves. There are multiple methods to search (and replace) text in files.
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