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    • Courtland Gentry
      Courtland Gentry last edited by

      So I want to use the direction function, as in up and down in the find section. I would like to either know what version of notepad++ still has it, or how I can do it on the latest.

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      • Alan Kilborn
        Alan Kilborn @Courtland Gentry last edited by

        @courtland-gentry

        Presume you are running into lack of ability to search backwards when the Search mode is set to Regular expression ?

        If so, see the fine user manual HERE and look for (or search for) this text: Backward regex searching is foribidden by default

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        • Courtland Gentry
          Courtland Gentry @Alan Kilborn last edited by

          @alan-kilborn No I am on extended.

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          • Alan Kilborn
            Alan Kilborn @Courtland Gentry last edited by

            @courtland-gentry

            Ah, okay, it’s a bit like pulling teeth, but I’m rereading your original question in a non-regex mode context…

            Maybe you are referring to “very old” Notepad++ software, where there were Up and Down radio buttons?:

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            If so, then I’ll point out that newer software consolidates this functionality into one control:

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            However, most people don’t use that, I’d say, because you can easily turn on “two button” find mode with the checkbox to the right of Find Next:

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            and achieve this:

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            where you have backward and forward directional searching with a single button press.

            Also note that the Enter and Shift+Enter keys when the Find window has input focus will also serve to find the next and previous matches.

            Hopefully this covers everything you need about this feature?

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            • Courtland Gentry
              Courtland Gentry last edited by

              @Alan-Kilborn Thank you very much this helped a lot.

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