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  2. CONFCLOUD-25190

Add Regular Expression support to editor search & replace

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      NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion.

      The "3. Editor Find & Replace" feature added to Confluence 4.1 could really use the addition of (optional) support for regular expressions in the "find" term, and back-references in the "replace" term.

      Similar support is available in JSPWiki, and allows complex search/replace to be done on pages.

      Example:

      Make all bullet list entries bold:

      Find (regex): ^(* )(.+)
      Replace: \1*\2*

      (assumes backreferences to capturing groups are made using backslash, JSPWiki uses "$")

      A screenshot using the above example, using JSPWiki, is attached to this issue

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              7ece6c6791ab Morten Hattesen
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