Find and Replace plugin

Find and replace text in the current document, with a Notepad++-style dialog and keyboard commands that work with or without it open. Search history and options are remembered between sessions.

Where to find it

The Search menu:

Command	Shortcut	What it does
Find…	Ctrl+F	Opens the dialog on the Find tab.
Replace…	Ctrl+H (⌥⌘F on macOS)	Opens the dialog on the Replace tab.
Find Next	F3	Jumps to the next match using the current query/options.
Find Previous	Shift+F3	Jumps to the previous match.
Select and Find Next	Ctrl+F3	Uses the current selection as the query, then finds the next match.
Select and Find Previous	Ctrl+Shift+F3	Same, searching backward.

F3 / Shift+F3 work even when the dialog is closed.

The dialog

• Find what / Replace with — combo boxes with a drop-down of recent entries (Replace with appears on the Replace tab).
• Direction — Forward or Backward.
• Match case — case-sensitive search.
• Match whole word only — match only complete words.
• Wrap around — continue from the other end of the document when the search reaches the start/end (on by default).
• Search mode — see below.
• Buttons: Find Next, Find Previous, Replace (one), Replace All, Close.

Search modes

Mode	Meaning
Normal	A literal substring.
Extended	Literal, but backslash escapes are decoded first: \n, \r, \t, \0, \\, and \xNN (a hex byte).
Regular expression	An ECMAScript-style regex. A "matches newline" sub-option (shown only for regex) lets . span line breaks. In Replace with, capture groups are referenced as \1–\9 or $1–$9.

Search state is shared

The query and options are shared across the editor's search features, so a term you type here is also what F3, Mark and Incremental Search use.