regex - How do I replace a newline in Atom?

Question

In Atom, If I activate regex mode on the search-and-replace tool, it can find newlines as , but when I try to replace them, they're still there.

Is there no way to replace a newline-spanning string in Atom?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31400866/how-do-i-replace-a-newline-in-atom

Answer 1

Looks like Atom matches newlines as but behaves inconsistently when replacing just the with nothing.

So newlines seem to match s+ and , and only "half" of the line-ending matches .

• If you replace with a string, nothing happens to the line-ending, but the string is appended to the next line
• If you replace with a string, nothing happens at all, but the cursor advances.