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<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"><title>Normal Search</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css"></head>
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<h1>Normal search</h1>
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<img style="width: 488px; height: 318px;" alt="" src="Images/Screenshots/find.png"><p>You
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can search text as in most programs using the Find/Replace dialog.
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You can open this dialog by selecting <span class="menu_item">Search->Find</span> (or pressing
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<img style="width: 16px; height: 16px;" alt="" src="Images/Toolbar/find.png">), <span class="menu_item">Search->Replace</span> (or pressing <img style="width: 16px; height: 16px;" alt="" src="Images/Toolbar/findReplace.png">) or <span class="menu_item">Search->Find in Files</span>.<p>
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Each of these options will open the corresponding tab in the
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Find/Replace dialog. This dialog will always stay on top of the text,
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but you can still keep on editing the text if it's opened, and you
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can set it to be transparent (using the Transparency option) when its
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inactive (On lose focus) or at all times (Always). The slider
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controls the amount of transparency. Note that transparency is only
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available on Windows 2000 and later.
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<p>In
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the Find what field, type the text you want to find. This is
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automatically filled with the current selected text, or the word under the caret, or the last searched pattern, when the Find
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dialog is opened. The drop down list contains previous search items
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if a search was performed before. See also Search Mode.
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<p>
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The
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section below the Find what field allows you to mark and indicate all
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hits for a certain search.
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<p><ul><li>
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<span class="checkbox">Mark Line</span> adds a bookmark (see <a href="Bookmarks.html">Bookmarks</a>)
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to the line with a hit
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</li><li> <span class="checkbox">Style found token</span> will give the matching text
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a different color (see <a href="Marking%20search%20results.html">Marking search results</a>)
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</li><li> <span class="checkbox">Purge for each search</span> will clear all bookmarks
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and highlights before searching again.
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</ul><p>
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To
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perform any of these actions, click the <span class="button">Find All </span>button in the section. To clear all
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the results, click the <span class="button">Clear</span> button.
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<p>
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The <span class="checkbox">
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In selection</span> checkbox will restrict search to the selection. It is disabled if there is no selection.
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<p><ul><li><span class="checkbox">Match
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whole word only</span> will only result in a hit if the match consists of an
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entire word, not if it's partial (for example (but not limited to),
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whitespace separated).
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</li><li>
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<span class="checkbox">Match
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case</span> enforces that hits have exactly the same case as the query. If
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this is disabled, the search is case insensitive.
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</li><li>
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<span class="checkbox">Wrap
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around</span> will start at the top of the file when the end of the file is
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reached when searching, depending on the location of the cursor.</li></ul>
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<p>
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The
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search mode determines how the query will be handled:
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<p><ul><li>In
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<span class="radio">Normal</span>, the text will be searched literally. </li><li>In
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<span class="radio">Extended</span>, special character sequences will be interpreted as special
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characters such as newline characters. In this case, you can choose
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from:
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<ul><li><font face="Times New Roman, serif">\\
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- Backslash character;</font>
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</li><li><font face="Times New Roman, serif">\t
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– TAB character;</font>
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</li><li><font face="Times New Roman, serif">\r
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– CR character;</font>
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</li><li><font face="Times New Roman, serif">\n
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– LF character;</font>
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</li><li><font face="Times New Roman, serif">\0
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– NULL character;</font>
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</li><li><font face="Times New Roman, serif">\x##
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- Hexadecimal value (between 00 and FF);</font>
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</li><li><font face="Times New Roman, serif">\d###
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- Decimal value (between 000 and 255);</font>
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</li><li><font face="Times New Roman, serif">\o###
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- Octal value (between 000 and 377);</font>
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</li><li><font face="Times New Roman, serif">\b########
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- Binary value (between 00000000 and 11111111).</font>
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</li></ul>
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</li><li>In
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<span class="radio">Regular Expression</span>, the query will be handled like a regular
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expression. Because Notepad++ makes use of the Scintilla regex
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engine, it is the same as with SciTE, so a full list of regex options
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can be found here (with the difference that POSIX mode is always on,
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this is not an option): <a target="_blank" href="http://www.scintilla.org/SciTERegEx.html">http://www.scintilla.org/SciTERegEx.html</a>
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with
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some examples here:<a target="_blank" href="http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notepad-plus/index.php?title=">Regular_Expressions</font></a>
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</li></ul>
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<p>The
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search direction determines to what relative direction of the cursor
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will be searched. <span class="radio">Up</span> means text before the cursor will be searched,
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<span class="radio">Down</span> means text beyond the cursor will be searched.
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<p>To
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find the (next) hit, press <span class="button">Find Next</span> (or Enter). <span class="button">Count</span> will count the
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amount of hits the search will result in. <span class="button">Find all in all opened
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documents</span> will search all opened documents and displays a list of
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results for each file, see also <a href="Searching%20in%20Files.html">Searching in Files</a>. <span class="button">Find all in current documents</span>
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behaves in a very similar way.
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<p><span class="button">Close</span>
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simple closes the search dialog (close button and ESC do the same).</body></html>
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