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

A possible workaround would be to use the multi-cursor. select the >< part of your example use Ctrl+Shift+L or select all occurrences. Then use the arrow keys to move all the cursors between the tags and press enter to insert a newline everywhere.

This won't work in all situations.

You can also use Ctrl+D for select next match, which adds the next match to the selection and adds a cursor. And use Ctrl+K Ctrl+D to skip a selection.

Answer 2

On my mac version of VS Code, I select the section, then the shortcut is Ctrl+j to remove line breaks.

Answer 3

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.