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Offline Pecan

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How can I enter a tab char in the text editor with find/replace
« on: November 16, 2015, 12:50:46 am »
Is it possible to enter escape characters like \n \t etc with the find/replace dialog of the editor?

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Re: How can I enter a tab char in the text editor with find/replace
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2015, 01:28:32 am »
There is a multiline checkbox in the dialog, have you tried it?
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Re: How can I enter a tab char in the text editor with find/replace
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2015, 07:27:38 am »
It doesn't seem to work, pressing Tab changes fields.  The only way I know how to work around this limitation in programs is to paste a tab character in from the clipboard.
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Re: How can I enter a tab char in the text editor with find/replace
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2015, 05:22:33 pm »
Finally figured it out by using the regular expression option of replace. '\t' (without quotes) worked.

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