searching or replacing with regex isn't working

Author: wshamroukhCreated Dec 22, 2025Updated Jul 29, 2026
Labelsregex

Operating System and Version

Win11

Distribution

installer

Description

Searching or replacing with regex isn't working - Here is what in the text file:

12-18 09:49:33.325  1120  1120 E audiohalservice: Failed to dlopen android.hardware.audio.sounddose-vendor-impl.so: dlopen failed: library "android.hardware.audio.sounddose-vendor-impl.so" not found
12-18 09:49:33.325  1120  1120 W audiohalservice: createISoundDoseFactory() from android.hardware.audio.sounddose-vendor-impl failed
12-18 21:42:09.309     0     0 I servicemanager: Caller(pid=1792,uid=1000,sid=u:r:system_server:s0) Could not find vendor.lineage.livedisplay.IAutoContrast/default in the VINTF manifest. No alternative instances declared in VINTF.

And here is the search string ^.*?(?=[IEVWDF]\s) - this works on other similar notepad tools, but not on notepad next

Steps to Reproduce

  1. put the following in the text file"
12-18 09:49:33.325  1120  1120 E audiohalservice: Failed to dlopen android.hardware.audio.sounddose-vendor-impl.so: dlopen failed: library "android.hardware.audio.sounddose-vendor-impl.so" not found
12-18 09:49:33.325  1120  1120 W audiohalservice: createISoundDoseFactory() from android.hardware.audio.sounddose-vendor-impl failed
12-18 21:42:09.309     0     0 I servicemanager: Caller(pid=1792,uid=1000,sid=u:r:system_server:s0) Could not find vendor.lineage.livedisplay.IAutoContrast/default in the VINTF manifest. No alternative instances declared in VINTF.
  1. hit ctrl+h and in the search string put ^.*?(?=[IEVWDF]\s)
  2. and select regular expression and hit find/replace - nothing gets replaced or nothing is found

Debug Information

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