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While not an elegant solution, I had to use exactly this approach when doing a large, multiline search and replace within a Windows text editor.
– siliconpi
Commented May 16, 2012 at 16:08
If your replacement text doesn't contain escaped characters which are parsed by extended method (\n, \r, \t etc.) then you can make it easier by simply replacing \r\n with \\r\\n with no need to change anything back.
– Markus von Broady
Commented Aug 11, 2016 at 14:32

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create code fences with backticks ` or tildes ~
```
like so
```
add language identifier to highlight code
```python
def function(foo):
print(foo)
```
put returns between paragraphs
for linebreak add 2 spaces at end
_italic_ or **bold**
indent code by 4 spaces
backtick escapes `like _so_`
quote by placing > at start of line
to make links (use https whenever possible)
<https://example.com>
[example](https://example.com)
<a href="https://example.com">example</a>

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