[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Multi-line "Find in Files" searching (#2322)

Chris Graham notifications at xxxxx
Tue Sep 24 21:41:19 UTC 2019


It would be very useful to be able to search across multiple lines in "Find in Files". This doesn't work using patterns (\n) or by pasting in the line break character.

I realize this is all because `grep` doesn't really support multi-line searches, and it would not be difficult to implement this request.

It might be possible to add support for `pcregrep` to do what we need, with Geany complaining if you are searching for a linebreak-containing string and there being no `pcregrep` installed.

Or, we could dump grep and move find in files internally, using the same engine as the current Find feature.

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