Hi @guy038, MultiReplace doesn’t use a regex engine of its own: its searches run through Notepad++'s Scintilla, i.e. through Notepad++'s Boost regex engine. So ^ and $ see the same line breaks as the native Find dialog, which with Boost also includes FF, NEL, LS and PS. That is intended: MultiReplace should always find the same matches as Notepad++ itself.

@Jason-Wright see: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27668/notepad-release-8.9.8.1/24?_=1791283128768

@Troglo37 This sounds like a good idea for an app feature or plug-in, but unfortunately, unless you have backups, I’m going to have to guess that no, you don’t have auto backup of config files. I know I’ve been making manual backups for files I feel I need but mostly for copying from one version to the next for test purposes, to take my settings over without having to, as you say, manually re-set them. I, like you, did this enough times to start making back-ups myself. One of the problems, is that the main files are the only things that have a “fail safe” by having default files settings in separate files that the system can restore…but once you start using the standard files, all the changes go directly into those files and no backups of the active settings gets made unless you do it yourself. There are so many options that are scattered around in the different files that you really should have a program/batch file that would automatically make backups of the changed config files for future protection, but that’s not the way the system works right now. That’s why we say, back up and back up often. Sorry.

@gromittoo , I have never seen that happen. The only way I know of for the two Views to appear to have different font sizes is if there is a zoom difference. I know you said you returned to default zoom, but the two Views don’t sync zoom in modern Notepad++, so you have to return to default zoom for each View separately. (Click one view, reset its zoom; click other view, reset its zoom) If your views are top/bottom, rather than left/right, they aren’t guaranteed to have the same number of rows, so right click on the divider between, and Rotate Left to get back to side-by-side views, which always have the same vertical space. Alternatively, if the font sizes are actually visibly the same, by a given line takes up more vertical space because of line wrap, you can drag the separation bar left/right to balance the width, or turn off line wrapping. I want to compare two files, side by side. My searches led me to use the View -> Move/Clone Current Document -> Clone to other view… That advice showed two copies of the same file, and doesn’t compare two separate files. You can move (not clone) the second file into the other view, if you really want two different files side-by-side. And if you’re really comparing two files, the ComparePlus plugin is your friend. (It can be installed using Plugins > Plugins Admin)