It would be very useful to be able to search across multiple lines in "Find in 
Files". This doesn't work using patterns (\n) or by pasting in the line break 
character.

I realize this is all because `grep` doesn't really support multi-line 
searches, and it would not be difficult to implement this request.

It might be possible to add support for `pcregrep` to do what we need, with 
Geany complaining if you are searching for a linebreak-containing string and 
there being no `pcregrep` installed.

Or, we could dump grep and move find in files internally, using the same engine 
as the current Find feature.

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