Find and replace with a newline in Visual Studio Code

Question

I am trying out the new Microsoft Visual Studio Code editor in Linux Fedora environment  I would like to know how to replace new line   n  in place of some other text    For example  I have html text like this   lt tag gt  lt tag gt     which I would like to replace as    lt tag gt   lt tag gt    In sublime I would use regex pattern and find    lt   and replace with    n lt   How do I accomplish this in Visual Studio Code

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with v1 31 1 in RegEx mode the Replace All functionality is broken   clicking that button replaces only one instance

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On my mac version of VS Code  I select the section  then the shortcut is Ctrl j to remove line breaks

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In the local searchbox  ctrl   f  you can insert newlines by pressing ctrl   enter     If you use the global search  ctrl   shift   f  you can insert newlines by pressing shift   enter     If you want to search for multilines by the character literal  remember to check the rightmost regex icon       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

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Control F for search  or Control Shift F for global search Replace  gt  lt  by  gt  n lt  with Regular Expressions enabled

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A possible workaround would be to use the multi-cursor  select the   lt  part of your example use Ctrl Shift L or select all occurrences  Then use the arrow keys to move all the cursors between the tags and press enter to insert a newline everywhere   This won t work in all situations   You can also use Ctrl D for select next match  which adds the next match to the selection and adds a cursor  And use Ctrl K Ctrl D to skip a selection

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Also note  after hitting the regex icon   to actually replace  n text with a newline  I had to use   n as search and  n as replace

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CTRL   H  then select regex     and write  n  Shorter version   CTRL H ALT R  n

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With VS Code release 1 38 you can press CTRL   Enter in the editor find box to add a newline character     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     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 version 1 1 1    Ctrl H Check the regular exp icon    Search   gt  lt  Replace   gt  n lt

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