Cannot search and replace multiple lines in project

[jannisborgers]

For smaller, static websites, I often find myself having to replace whole regions of multiple HTML files (navs, footer sitemaps, etc.) that have the same content and I want to replace with a newer version of that content.

I tried using „Find in project“, each time pasting the region I want to search for (in this case, 3 lines), but the search results come up without hits.

Step 1: I select the lines, paste them in both the search and replace fields, and make my changes in the latter

Step 2: I hit return. The string is not found.

Because I indent my HTML, the preceding tabs are not transported to the input fields correctly and are omitted. Turning RegEx on does not change the results, putting something like „*.html“ in the scope field also does nothing.

Also note that I’m unsure if this is even an issue, or I’m just using the function in a wrong way, missing something?

Mac OS X Yosemite, Atom 1.0.0, with the following community packages installed:

[benogle]

Thanks for the report. Project find currently doesnt search across line boundaries. Closing as a dupe of #218