Find multiple lines in Notepad++

I wrote a multiline search and replace add on for Notepad++, check it out here: http://www.phdesign.com.au/programming/toolbucket-multi-line-search-plugin-for-notepad/

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As Xenovoyance suggests, it is possible with CTRL+R (also found in menu option TextFX > TextFX Quick > Find/Replace):

Just select your text to find, then invoke that option... Multi line find/replace

UPDATE: User Żabojad made me realise that in the latest releases of Notepad++, the "TextFX" plugin is not installed by default, so first you'll have to do one of two things:

  1. The easiest one: Go to menu option Plugins > Plugin Manager > Show Plugin Manager, scroll the available plugin list to "TextFX Characters" and install it. Install from Plugin Manager

  2. The above way should work, but otherwise you'll have go to this page : http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/TextFX/TextFX%20v0.26/ and download file TextFX.v0.26.unicode.bin.zip Download TextFX Characters then extract its contents (don't just copy zip file) to the \plugins subfolder of the Notepad++ Install Folder Copy dll to Notepad++ plugins folder

After restarting Notepad++ you'll see the menu entry TextFX.

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Notepad++