Notepad++ User Manual Roe COC) ee RU Pee Rey rr) en] eee pera Meu Me ea recurs occu MMC aT rence) Cy a Cee nec Cece RUSE cca) Binary Translation aa UC) Other Resources There are multiple methods to search (and replace) text in files. You CORE ee ee RCo eau CRU eCard Ree ee ee Sen eee UCU nC based) Find / Replace / Find In Files / Mark, the dialog-free Next / Previous search-navigation, and the Incremental Search. EO ene ta ene oe Cont Reena ae eco d for any menu item in the menu entry, or in the Shortcut Mapper. Dialog-based Searching Se eee nner en Ree Cen ecu CcPa a PA Me Peete eR Re a Ce tab for each of the aforementioned searching-related features. The Find tab (accessible using Search > Find or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F) gives access to searching and counting. The Replace tab Ceres Cr Cet ene) eae eS ORO ed ad the matched text after it's found. 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First is a line describing what was searched for, how many total matches (known as “hits") occurred (this is also shown in the title bar for the window, for the most recently-occurring search), SOUR eS Rae oe Le eS Tee Rue aCe AC ROR ie een icra Ra ea Seo Last comes the details about the matches found, including line number Cea ee Reon er CO Renn Ce Re ecu) CR eee ee aes When Notepad++ populates the Find result window, it does so using one line for each match found by the search. Note that this can andNotepad++ User Manual Roe COC) ee RU Pee Rey rr) en] eee pera Meu Me ea recurs occu MMC aT rence) Cy a Cee nec Tee RUSE cca) Binary Translation aa UC) Other Resources ee RMR ES ee ce RR Ec eR times in the output. An example of this would be if you are searching for “the” in the line of text that reads “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country”; the Find result window would list the line twice, once with the word “the” called out