Chapter 2. Regular expressions
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# Chapter 2. Regular expressions

medit uses regular expressions functionality provided by Glib, which in turn uses PCRE library. See Glib manual for complete description of regular expression syntax.

Regular expression searches in a document text are limited to single lines, unless the search pattern includes newline character. For example, pattern "`.*`" will match every line in the document, pattern "`.*\n.*`" will match pairs of consecutive lines. This means that it is mostly impossible to perform searches for text which spawns multiple lines.

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