On 8/4/06, John Gabriele jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/4/06, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
On 04/08/06 06:52:51, John Gabriele wrote: [snip]
With regard to the "Replace control characters", I see that this means: if you put one of these 2-character patterns in your replace string (like \t), you'll actually get the control character when the replace happens (instead of the two separate '' and 't' characters). It may be an error that this option is in the "Find" dialog, correct?
No, what if you want to find lines with a certain indentation? Also it can be used to find Unicode characters by their code.
Ah. Ok. I was confused because the overloading of the word "replace" (in connection with "find and replace"). In both the "Find" and "Replace" dialogs, it might make it more clear to change this checkboxe's name from "Replace control characters" to "Interpret control characters", since the editor is "interpreting" what you really mean when you type \t or \uXXXX. [snip]
You know, it just occurs to me now (since I don't think I've ever explicitly used unicode) that this feature is probably much more widely used for the unicode than for the ascii control chars (the only ascii one I can think of that I might come across is \t, and for that I always think "regex"). So, the checkbox item could say "Interpret unicode" or else maybe the possibly-too-verbose "Interpret unicode and control characters".
Hmm... Wait a sec. Have you ever considered using that checkbox explicitly and only for unicode interpretation, and leaving the ascii control codes only to be specified as escapes in regexes?
My guess is that it's conceivable that you might one day either allow extended regexes (another checkbox in the Find and Replace dialogs?), or maybe even migrate entirely to a different regex engine. Dunno how regexes and unicode chars are connected wrt the regex code though...
---John