Find and replace with a newline in Visual Studio Code

Question

I am trying out the new Microsoft Visual Studio Code editor in Linux Fedora environment. I would like to know how to replace new line (\\n) in place of some other text.

Answer 1

In the local searchbox (ctrl + f) you can insert newlines by pressing ctrl + enter.

If you use the global search (ctrl + shift + f) you can insert newlines by pressing shift + enter.

If you want to search for multilines by the character literal, remember to check the rightmost regex icon.

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In previous versions of Visual Studio code this was difficult or impossible. Older versions require you to use the regex mode, older versions yet did not support newline search whatsoever.