[Geany] use of regex -- solved

Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven at xxxxx
Fri Mar 5 16:56:42 UTC 2010


On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:02:27 +0000
Ronan Chilvers <ronan at d3r.com> wrote:

> OK, solved. Seems the regex patterns cannot hold '\n'. So, i do it in 2
> > passes:
> > * "\t*{" --> " {" (with regex)
> > * "\n {" --> " {" (without)
> >
> >
> There's a  'Use escape sequences' checkbox in the search - maybe you need to
> tick that? I've found before that I need both that and regex ticked to do
> the sort of search you're doing.

I know what you mean, but currently it's just not possible to
do multiline regex matching. I am working on it though.

Regards,
Nick



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