title: Visual Studio 2012: How to handle code replacement over multiple lines
body: <p>I often have to replace multiple lines in multiple documents. In Visual Studio 2012 there seems to be the possibility to put muliple line code in a simple one-line-input-box only.</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MtIRy.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MtIRy.jpg" alt="search/replace box layer in Visual Studio 2012 (german language pack)" /></a></p>
  
  <p>In the &quot;embedded&quot; search box there is also only a single-line input field:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/RHWQJ.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/RHWQJ.jpg" alt="embedded search/replace box in Visual Studio 2012 (german language pack)" /></a></p>
  
  <p>After inserting the often very long search terms and trying to put a regular expressions for line breaks into it, i have to move horizontally inside a one-line-input-field which isn't comfortable at all.</p>
  <p>Is there another way to use the find/replace functionality for replacing muliple lines in Visual Studio 2012?</p>