I am trying out the new Microsoft Visual Studio Code editor in Linux Fedora environment. I would like to know how to replace new line (\n) in place of some other text.
For example, I have html text like this:
<tag><tag>
which I would like to replace as:
<tag>
<tag>
In Sublime Text, I would use regex pattern and find >< and replace with >\n<. How do I accomplish this in Visual Studio Code?
In the local searchbox (ctrl + f) you can insert newlines by pressing ctrl + enter.
If you use the global search (ctrl + shift + f) you can insert newlines by pressing shift + enter.
If you want to search for multilines by the character literal, remember to check the rightmost regex icon.
In previous versions of Visual Studio code this was difficult or impossible. Older versions require you to use the regex mode, older versions yet did not support newline search whatsoever.
\\n and replace with \n works for me, using 1.25.0With VS Code release 1.38 you can press CTRL + Enter in the editor find box to add a newline character.
With VS Code release 1.30 you can type Shift + Enter in the search box to add a newline character without needing to use regex mode.
Since VS Code release 1.3, the regex find has supported newline characters. To use this feature set the find window to regex mode and use \n as the newline character.
<!--[\s\S\n]*?--> And I was missing the \n :)
In version 1.1.1:
.*><>\n<
Also note, after hitting the regex icon, to actually replace \n text with a newline, I had to use \\n as search and \n as replace.
>< by >\n< with Regular Expressions enabled
At least for me in VS Code Version 1.62.3 on Windows and VS Code Version 1.75 on MacOS (Ventura) it is working with regex, as shown below:
Replace Menu
Windows: CTRL+R
Mac: command+option+F
Activate "Use Regular Expression (ALT + R)"
Windows: ALT+R
Mac: command+option+R
Use <> in the Search field and >\n< in the Replace field
Press "Replace All (CRTL+ALT+Enter)" with an empty field
Windows: CTRL+ALT+ENTER
Mac: command+option+R
In case of the initial question, it would look like this:
Hint:
Use [\n] or \n to find all newlines
In addition, to find newlines at the beginning of a line, you can also use ^[\n] or ^\n:
^[\n] saved the day. If you want to remove the complete line you can couple it with .*. This will select the complete empty line.A possible workaround would be to use the multi-cursor. select the >< part of your example use Ctrl+Shift+L or select all occurrences. Then use the arrow keys to move all the cursors between the tags and press enter to insert a newline everywhere.
This won't work in all situations.
You can also use Ctrl+D for select next match, which adds the next match to the selection and adds a cursor. And use Ctrl+K Ctrl+D to skip a selection.
Ctrl+D is great! You may need to press Ctrl+F first and after a few Ctrl+Ds or skipping with Ctrl+K Ctrl+D, you may press Esc to place the cursor in all selections!On my mac version of VS Code, I select the section, then the shortcut is Ctrl+j to remove line breaks.
CTRL + H, then select regex (*) and write \n
Shorter version: CTRL+H ALT+R \n
with v1.31.1 in RegEx mode the Replace All functionality is broken. clicking that button replaces only one instance
In case if you want to remove extra new lines from code then use this in vs code find a section
for opening the find box use ctrl + f in vs code
then find all new lines from code type this in the find box
^\n
also only choosing Use regular expression option means the last option of the find box. After selecting this you will see all new lines on the code highlighted. then on replace box leave it as it is and click replace all option.
Same as if you want to add a new line where ever you found space then on find, box provide one space than on replace box add
^\n and click return all
