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Regex in notepad++ to mark multi-line pattern and delete all unmarked lines, and keep all marked lines including the ones marked after the first line

I have xml tags that start on one line and end in another. Regex properly marks the lines when I use <tag>(.*?)<tag/>, but when I tell notepad++ to remove unbookmarked lines, it only keeps the first line of every single multi-line mark.

Is this a bug? Is there a setting I have to tinker with?

To clarify, I have 1 marked element and it spans multiple lines. Even though all lines are marked, only the first is bookmarked, so clear all unbookmarked clears the marked lines after the first bookmarked line. How can I get all lines in the element bookmarked, or keep them when I clear all bookmarked?

Solution

  • The easiest way around this issue is to make the xml tags one line or find another way to process xml (which I have not found).