CHANGE: The default keyboard shortcut for “Multiline Find/Replace” was Ctrl+Alt+F but it was not applied because this shortcut was already taken by “F# Interactive”.FIX: In VS 2022, the Quick Find/Replace box was not populated with the correct text and settings.
Select Edit category and Multiline Find/Replace command. Select Toolbar: Standard and press Add command. To add the command to your toolbar, right click on the toolbar and select Customize. You should see Edit.MultilineFindReplace command for which you can change the shortcut. Type "multiline" in Show commands containing field. If you want to change it (for example because the shortcut is already used) you can do it in Tools - Options. Predefined keyboard shortcut for the multiline search command is Ctrl+M, Ctrl+F. Moreover, the Use Regular Expressions option is automatically selected. That means Find what and Replace with fields contain the regular expressions for newlines. All required fields are correctly prepopulated. See the help for more details.Īccording to which find or replace button you press, the standard VS find/replace dialog appears.
You can set various options for how to handle whitespaces. When you invoke the command, you can insert multiline text in both Find what and Replace with fields. It also allows to save your searches.Īfter installing, a new Multiline Find/Replace menu item is created under Edit - Find and Replace. You don't have to use the regex syntax, the extension takes care of it. This is a user-friendly GUI wrapper over standard VS "Find" and "Find in Files" dialog. This extension allows multiline search and replace in Visual Studio.