The Find/Replace dialog opened with the menu entry → (Ctrl+F) enables you to define "search for" or "search for and replace" operations on the current document. The find works on multiple lines, which means a find match can cover characters on more than one line. To insert a new line in the find or replace text area press CTRL + Enter instead of Enter. The replace operation can bind Perl 5 regular expression group variables ($1, $2, etc.) from the find match. For example to replace the tag with attributes called tag-name with the tag tag-name1 use as text to find <tag-name(\s+)(.*)> and as replace text <tag-name1$1$2>.
Find occurrences of a word or string of characters including white spaces represented on a line or on multiple lines and highlight the position in the editor.
Replace occurrences of target defined in the Text to find area with a word or string of characters, including white spaces, that can be on a line or on multiple lines, defined in the Replace with area.
Replace all occurrences of a word or string of characters including white spaces that can be on a line or on multiple lines.
Complete the dialog as follows:
- Text to find
The target character string to search for. The string can be on a line or on multiple lines. Special characters like newline and tab can be inserted using the contextual menu.
You can search for Unicode characters specified in the
\uNNNNformat. Also, hexadecimal notation (\xNNNN) and octal notation (\0NNNN) can be used. Note that in this case you have to check the Regular expression checkbox. For example to search a space character you can use \u0020 code.- Replace with
The character string with which to replace the target. The string for replace can be on a line or on multiple lines. Special characters like newline and tab can be inserted using the contextual menu.
Unicode characters can also be used in the Replace with area.
- The Find and Replace history buttons
The last find and replace operations history is available using the
History buttons from the top of the find or
replace text area.The character string with which to replace the target. It may contain regexp group markers if the search expression is a regular expression and the regular expression checkbox is checked.
- Direction
Specify if the search direction is from current position to end of file (forward direction) or to start of file (backward direction).
- Scope
Specify if the search is executed on all file or only on the lines that were selected when the dialog was invoked. If the selection was on a single line the search is executed on all the file.
Execute a find operation for the next occurrence of the target and stop.
Execute a replace operation for the target followed by a find operation for the next occurrence.
- Replace all
Execute a replace operation in the entire scope of the document.
Execute a replace operation starting from current target until the end of the document, in the direction specified by the current selection of the Direction switch (forward or backward).
- Case sensitive
When checked, operations are case sensitive.
- Whole words only
When checked only whole occurrences of a word will be included in the operation.
- Search also in tags
When checked, operation will include content of the start and end tags of the XML elements.
- Incremental
When checked, search operation is started for every letter typed in or deleted. The first match that obeys the checked conditions will be highlighted.
- Regular expression
When checked allows using any regular expression in PERL syntax.
- Wrap around
Continues the find from the start (end) of the document after reaching the end (start) if the search is in forward (backward) direction.