Please bear with me - I am currently a TextPad user who is frustrated at TextPad's inability to select text across multiple lines. I've downloaded UEdit to trial, and my first impressions are that it looks more powerful than TextPad and therefore *should* be able to do this. That said, a quick look at the help on Regular Expressions shows that, like text-pad, "?" does not match a new-line, nor do searches span multiple new-lines. I *think* the answer might lie in macros, and now that all said I will descibe my specific requirement and hope that someone can give me an answer!

I want to select all blocks text in a document which is delimited by XML-style tags e.g <START>....</START> (even if it spans multiple lines), then copy and paste it in to a new (blank) document. The document in question is quite large (8k lines), which I mention because the work-round in TextPad failed with large files.

Please help to make me a new UEdit user! Thanks in advance.

Many thanks for this Mofi - looks like I'll be moving to UEdit!

Note to newbies (like me) - for Mofi's useful macro to work you need to set the Continue if a Find with Replace Not Found check box on the macro's properties (Macro > Delete/Modify Macro Properties...)