Help:VisualEditor/User guide/Find and replace

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VisualEditor includes a powerful Find and Replace tool. After loading a page in VisualEditor, you can access it from Menu icon , then choosing Find and replace. You can also press Ctrl+G or ⌘ Cmd+G.

Regular expressions

Switch on button, to enable regular expressions (regex).

In the Find field, some special characters are interpreted as PCRE metacharacters. See documentation.

References can be found by the w:object replacement character \ufffc.

If you capture subpattern using parentheses, you may reuse captured string in Replace field with ordered $1, $2 … $n variables.

Limitations

You cannot look for newline character.

You cannot replace a phrase based on a lookahead or lookbehind regex.