8.1.2: Find in files: regex multiline never matches

[AmigoJack]

Based on https://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=13104 I just learned searching multiple lines using regular expressions in multiple files will never bring up a result. Has this worked in previous versions?

[Mike Olds]

Hello,

Using TP 8.1.2 I am able to search and replace across multiple files with multiple lines in TextPad using:

Search
<span class="mozp">([\s\S]*)</span>
Replace
\1

What I have not been able to do with this is to use it in Wild Edit

[AmigoJack]

replace across multiple files

Such a thing does not exist. I'm fine with "Find" and "Replace", also for all open documents.

I was talking about "Find In Files", where a search query like span>\n<span or span>\r<span just never matches. And I also don't want to find any space, I want to only find linebreaks.

[AmigoJack]

This is still not possible and I have neither a clue how I could be misunderstood, nor why this won't be fixed:

• CTRL+F5 = find in files (not just finding in opened files)
• regular expression
• Find: text\ntext
• no results found, although several files with those two lines exists

Where's the bug?

• the regexp text\n however finds matches
• but text\n. never finds anything, although it obviously should, since the dot matches anything
• not even text\R. as per help for ANY linebreak matches any file

What am I doing wrong? How can I find all files that have duplicate lines (as in ^(.+)$\n\1)? That is no problem with an open file and using F5 = search, but not using CTRL+F5 = search in files. Why is there a difference?