

While Notepad++ cannot find multi-line text by default, it surely can replace text in a single line with multi-line text using the Extended search mode.

You can access these by clicking on Plugins > ToolBucket, in the menu. As the name suggests, there are other tools in the bucket. Once installed, press Alt+Shift+F key combination to open Multi-line Find and Replace dialog.įrom here, you can search for text within a particular text selection, current document, or in all the open documents.įind and Replace is not the only feature you get with ToolBucket. Under the Available tab, find and select ToolBucket, and click Install. You can also get this plugin from within the text-editor itself by going to Plugin Manager from Plugins > Plugin Manager > Show Plugin Manager. Thanks to a little plugin called ToolBucket, we can now find and replace multi-line text in Notepad++.ĭownload and extract zip file, and copy the NppToolBucket.dll file to your Notepad++\plugins folder. When you try to paste in a couple of lines into the find field, only the first line is entered, rest is ignored.

If you are a Notepad++ user, you’d be knowing that the program doesn’t support multi-line search.
