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"\s" should match new line ("\n")
See original GitHub issue- Version: 1.50.0 (system setup)
- Commit: 93c2f0fbf16c5a4b10e4d5f89737d9c2c25488a3
- Date: 2020-10-07T06:10:52.432Z
- Electron: 9.2.1
- Chrome: 83.0.4103.122
- Node.js: 12.14.1
- V8: 8.3.110.13-electron.0
- OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19042
Steps to Reproduce:
- Type
123
456
in the editor.
2. Open searching window.
3. Search 123\s456.
In POSIX-Extended Regular Expressions, [:space:], which is equal to \s in vscode, representing blank (whitespace) characters including [ \t\n\r\f\v], so \s should match \n.
Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 3 years ago
- Reactions:2
- Comments:9 (5 by maintainers)
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I’m disappointed to see how unlikely it seeming is that this blatant bug will be getting fixed. This is an embarrassing bug. Please get this fixed. It’s a direct violation of Visual Studio’s docs for
\s.@IllusionMH is perfectly correct, that is how it works today.
But I agree it is surprising and a VS Code quirk. The issue came up again, so it isn’t isolated that folks expect us to behave differently. We can reopen this to track to improve this somehow… Perhaps we should detect
\sand ask somehow if the regex should be considered multiline or perhaps we should just do it if the file size is small enough.