Powerful find and replace with regular expressions should be the hallmark of every IDE worth its mettle. MS Visual Studio does it so-so, but lo and behold, Netbeans (at least in version 6.1) is even worse.
So I wanted to put foo at the beginning of every line in a text, which calls for a regex like:
^.*
and replace like:
foo $0
However, Netbeans only ever replaces the first match in a text, over and over again. It also hangs up easily in the process.
As with many a Netbeans quirk, it’s Quanta Plus to the rescue again:
Works like a charm.