So I discovered if I drop the DATA and remove the + sign between ) and NULL
that the search dialog becomes functional again.

DATA(.*\n.*)+NULL

So I can find things ending in NULL, but not the beginning part of the block.

That string doesn't work for me at all. I open the Find dialog, and paste in the text, click find and nothing happens. I have regex selected, as well as Case Insensitive and Hypersearch and Current Buffer.

Since this is my first attempt to search using Regex, perhaps I'm doing something wrong?

Joel

Hmm, what do You mean by "nothing happens"? For me, always something does happen:
- the search dialog disappears (unless it's avoided via option)
- the hyper search dockable opens, whether or not an occurrence has been found.

I'm on WinXP, Java 1.7, jEdit 5.0.0

Hi Robert,

I mean, absolutely nothing happens other than the Find button turns blue and stays blue as if it didn't completely "click". Normal finds work even with the Regular Expressions box checked, but if I plop in the above string, I don't even get a non-found error.

I'm on:

"JEdit 5.1pre1 server mode, using Sun Microsystems Inc Java 1.6.0_27"