I filed it here, so you can vote on it . Early in the whidbey alpha program proposed screenshots were posted of the new search/replace dialogs. I then mentioned it would be great (because I ran into this limitation a couple of times) if the find/replace dialog would accept multi-line search and replace strings, so you could search for 2 lines for example and / or replace with a multi-line string. A lot of people in the whidbey alpha group agreed.
To my surprise however, I saw in the VC# Express product that the find/replace dialog is single line only. There is no way to search for multi-line strings or replace something with a multi-line string. Perhaps this is a limitation of the Express product line, as I don't have the latest whidbey full installed so I can't test it there. If it is, forgive me, if it isn't (so whidbey full version has this same limitation), please make the search/replace dialog accept multi-line strings. A lot of the editors out there can do this already, as it is very handy to have .
(note: I know with regular expressions it is possible, but I don't see how converting a search string and replace string into a regexp is 'productive', while a multi-line search/replace box is (like Homesite already has for years for example)
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. Early in the whidbey alpha program proposed screenshots were posted of the new search/replace dialogs. I then mentioned it would be great (because I ran into this limitation a couple of times) if the find/replace dialog would accept multi-line search and replace strings, so you could search for 2 lines for example and / or replace with a multi-line string. A lot of people in the whidbey alpha group agreed.
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