Bug 131157

Summary:	find/replace regexp option: treat the document as one line
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2006-07-21 12:20:11 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.3)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Such feature (option directly at find/replace dialog) would be useful for several reasons:
* searching phrase "A B" when you are not if it is "A\nB" exactly
* replacing newline characters -- I can match "A$", but what I want to replace newlines with spaces, then I could set "(A)\n" replace to "\1 ".

The only "problem" which such feature is to ensure Kate works only with \n internally, not \r\n, or anything else.

Comment 1 Dominik Haumann 2006-07-30 11:08:28 UTC

Kate works with \n internally.
Kate internally is linebased, which is why treating the whole document as a single line is not possible so far.
This is related to the wish "search & replace over multiple lines".

Comment 2 Matthew Woehlke 2006-07-31 18:28:49 UTC

Of course, replacing '(A)\n' with '\1 ' would also require Bug 127765 / Bug 45529 to be fixed.

Comment 3 Matthew Woehlke 2006-07-31 22:22:38 UTC

Oh... I take that back, looks like that's what "placeholders" are supposed to do? How on earth did we get the harder-to-implement part of regex-escapes in the 'replace' text and not the simple parts?

Comment 4 Matthew Woehlke 2007-04-20 22:55:35 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64910 ***