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Product Version = NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 070911) Operating System = Linux version 2.6.20-16-386 running on i386 Java; VM; Vendor = 1.6.0_02; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.6.0_02-b05; Sun Microsystems Inc. 1) open text file 2) open Search&Replace dialog with Regular Expressions 3) find all occurrences of some char e.g. ':' 4) try to replace with \n => all occurrences of ':' are wrongly replaced by '/n' instead of new line
Created attachment 48557 [details] a test textfile
From the steps to reproduce, I deduced that you mean Search&Replace in the editor. Reassigned to "editor" for further evaluation.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 112353 ***