[CLOSED] Multiple Cursors and Selections do not work with Regular Expressions

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Issue by swieser
Friday Apr 25, 2014 at 12:00 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#7643

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When searching for a regular expression, and then pressing Alt+F3, not all of the matches are selected.

Example:

1. Take any HTML document. Make sure it has at least two different tags, such as <b> and <i>.
2. Press Ctrl+F to bring up the search bar.
3. Enter "<[^>]+>" without quotes, which selects all the tags.
4. Press Alt+F3 (or press "Edit" / "Find All and Select") to select all the tags.

Result:
Only some of the tags are selected, even though all tags were initially highlighted when searching.

Expected:
All highlighted tags should be selected (compare to: "Find All" in Sublime Text 3).
In fact, there seems to be no obvious way to select all the results from the regular expression search, even if you don't use Alt+F3.

No extensions.
sprint 38 experimental build 0.38.0-12606 (release 4df8afdad)

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Comment by njx
Monday Apr 28, 2014 at 18:28 GMT

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Thanks for the report. "Find All" from the keyboard isn't integrated with the find dialog state - it uses the selected text in the document, even if the Find bar is open. This is how ST works, but I agree it's potentially confusing. In ST, they have a separate "Find All" button in the Find bar that does the behavior you want, but we haven't implemented that yet - it's on the backlog at https://trello.com/c/eZTEudAp.

Closing as move to backlog.