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    • Sherif HemidaS Offline
      Sherif Hemida
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      Find previous function not working on my win32 notepad++ 7.8.x(both by shortcut and clicking search menu find previous option), seems resolved when i downgraded to 7.7.1. anyone observes same? if so, were can i report a bug? Thanks

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        @Sherif-Hemida ,

        It was an intentional change in v7.8.7, because find-previous doesn’t work how you think it will with regular expressions enabled. Find previous is still enabled for regular searches.

        See the instructions in the official docs for a config file change to make it work with regex, with the caveat that reverse-direction searches with regex sometimes yield unexpected results: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#preferences-for-advanced-users

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