IntelliJ IDEA Vim emulator's regex behaviour with newlines

Question

For example, to transform:

List(
  User(1)

into:

UserQuery ++= List(
  User(1)

where the User is matched and used in forming UserQuery .

I've had some difficulty getting newlines in regex to work with IntelliJ's Vim emulator (at the bottom of the editor window, after pressing and : ). There's no ^v like in ordinary Vim. :/

IntelliJ IDEA version: 14.1.3 (first time I've tried this in IntelliJ IDEA and so I don't know if this is a new issue.) Platform: Mac OS X 10.10.2 (Yosemite)

Answer 1

I've found the following to work.

To match: use \\n . To substitute in: use \\r .

That is, \\n doesn't work in substitution, \\r doesn't work in pattern. This regex works:

s/List(\n\( *\)\(\w*\)/\2Query ++= List(\r\1\2/