Global find and replace behavior drastically different than local w/ regex

[envygeeks]

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Description

mit\slicense$\n^$\n regexp does not work with global find and replace

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a file
2. Open said file
3. Add "MIT License\n\n"

Expected behavior: A match
Actual behavior: No Match
Reproduces how often: 100%

Versions

Atom : 1.26.0
Electron: 1.7.11
Chrome : 58.0.3029.110
Node : 7.9.0

Additional Information

[ghost]

#218

4 years anniversary in just 6 days

[thomasjo]

Closing as duplicate of #218.

[envygeeks]

@thomasjo This isn't about \s this about \n^$\n, \s works regardless of scope.

[thomasjo]

Perhaps I should have been more explicit in my comment above.

If you read the duplicate issue carefully, you will see that this is by design due to how the scandal library works; it splits each file into lines, and therefore only runs regex search patterns on line-by-line basis. In other words, searching across multiple lines is not supported with project-wide searches.

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Ref: atom/scandal#5

[envygeeks]

Ah boo, I didn't know that 😭. That explains a lot then. I've subscribed to that thread.