Searching for regexp in files shows results only from open files

[acristu]

• VSCode Version:1.19.3 (7c4205b)
• OS Version: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063]

I ran into #32095 while searching using regexp.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Regular search for name: "
2. Occurrences in all files are found
3. Search using regexp for \{(?:\s|\r?\n)*?name: "(\w+)",
4. Only occurrences in open files are found

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

No errors in Developer Tools Console.

[roblourens]

Multiline search is not supported, so it should show an error message for that query (because of the \n) but it was getting swallowed. It will now show "Literal \n not allowed"

[acristu]

Could we have an option to allow multiline search, disabled by default?

[roblourens]

It's just not implemented. #13155