Identations break in "Seach for" field

[pwnoobz]

Sometimes I want to copy a block of code and paste it in the "Search for" , but when the block of code has identations and starts a bit further from the start of the line it breaks in both "Search for" field and in "Replace with" fields.

Example:

                    <div class="some-class">
                        <div class="some-other-class">
                            <div class="another-class-here"></div>
                            <div class="another-class-here"></div>
                            <div class="another-class-here"></div>
                            <div class="another-class-here"></div>
                        </div>
                    </div>

Can you by any change improve on this?

Using the latest version on Windows 10 OS.

[stefankueng]

Sorry, but that's definitely not the job of grepWin. Think about it: how could grepWin even know that it can/should remove leading whitespaces? How could it know that you don't want the leading whitespaces (even though you "entered" them)?

[daxliniere]

I have a similar issue. I want to change this:

to this:

I've used the multiline editor for both (great feature, by the way!), but there are no search results. When I use only the first line, the search function is able to find all of the lines as expected. Is there a way to solve this?

(EDIT: I wasn't even able to paste the actual text here, Github changes the formatting even when using the code tags)

[daxliniere]

This is with all characters displayed. You can see that space characters are included not only between the words, but also several of them indicating indents.

[stefankueng]

@daxliniere when searching, use \s+ to search for whitespace with x indentation.

[daxliniere]

Hey @stefankueng, thanks for the super-quick reply! Sorry to be a dunce, but where in the GUI would I add \s+, please? And would it be possible to simply add a checkbox for this option?

All the best, Dax.

[daxliniere]

Hey @stefankueng, where in grepWin would I add \s+, please?

[stefankueng]

replace space/tabs in the search window/box with \s