Replacing multiple newlines

[philgyford]

If I have a text file like this:

Terry.

Bob.

Thelma.

Then using Atom's find/replace, with regular expressions on, I can search for \n\n and replace with \n\nx and, as expected, I end up with:

Terry.

x Bob.

x Thelma.

But if, using ex-mode I do :%s/\n\n/\n\nx / then nothing happens.

I can match and replace single newlines OK. e.g. %s/\n/\nx / gets me:

Terry.
x 
x Bob.
x 
x Thelma.

Is there something I'm missing about being able to search for multiple newlines, or is this just not supported at the moment?

[awilkins]

I believe this is a limitation of the Atom text buffer scan which operates on a line-by-line basis.

I think it's tied up pretty heavily to the underlying data structure used by it (which seems to be a composite structure composed of lines) - this is linked to the fails being seen in the unit tests which fail to insert multiple newlines correctly (each newline is inserted after the current line.. instead of after the previous newline which was inserted).

[hultberg]

This is caused by a bug in text-buffer package. See atom/text-buffer#224