[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Multi-line matching with regular expression should be default (#1588)

[elextr]

> since a 5-6 GB txt file might cause some serious trouble

Remember Geany is intended to be fairly fast and lightweight, so its useful on old wimpy laptops, where much less than that is noticeably slow.  And people insist on opening hundreds of megabyte log files, and search them.

> But at least there should be something like a warning that "\n cannot be found in single-line mode" or something

See the tooltip when you hover over the option. 

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