Find and replace with a newline in Visual Studio Code

With VS Code release 1.38 you can press CTRL + Enter in the editor find box to add a newline character.

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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.

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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.

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In the local searchbox (ctrl + f) you can insert newlines by pressing ctrl + enter.

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If you use the global search (ctrl + shift + f) you can insert newlines by pressing shift + enter.

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If you want to search for multilines by the character literal, remember to check the rightmost regex icon.

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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.