Replace with a newline

Geany, like many text editors, has a replace dialog:

In the Replace with: field, how can I express that I want the pattern to get replaced with a new line character?

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How can I express that I want the pattern to get replaced with a new line character?

• Set "Replace with" to \n
• Enable "Use regular expressions"
• Enable "Use multi-line matching"

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Regular expression syntax

Source Regular expression syntax

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The selected answer did not work for me. What did work was checking 'Use escape sequences,' then using the '\n' in the replace field.

This was using Geany 0.21 which did not have "Use multi-line matching."

After updating Geany to 1.30.1 which does have "Use multi-line matching" the selected answer should work.

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