[karmakaze]

I'd be happy with just being able to do regex searches over multiple (2 or 3) lines without jumping through hoops. The mentioned Structural Search for JetBrains' IDE sounds promising--I'll have to try that out.

[yijie4188]

I have tried it and it seems to have a good effect. I don't know why JetBrains didn't promote this search method. Instead, it is hidden a bit deeply.

[herrington_d]

The feature dates way back to perhaps 2006, per Jetbrains' PDF archive[1]. Jb also updated their structural search UI/UX in 2018[2]. It is possible that users do not buy in the idea of SSR. Alternatively, it may be caused by the fact that Jb SSR's mixed language support. [3][4][5]

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/docs/ssr.pdf [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeGPO-UHTbs [3] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/structural-search-and-re... [4] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/go/structural-search-and-repl... [5] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/structural-search-and...