On 04/08/06 17:11:32, John Gabriele 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. Also, in the "Replace" dialog, you might add to the popup help for this item that the replacement happens for *both* the find text *and* the replace text. (That is, I think you can search for foo_\uXXXX and replace it with foo_\uYYYY.)
Correct. Will do after 0.8.
BTW, there seems to be a small bug in the "Replace" dialog: when the search text is the same as the replace text, and you don't have the case sensitive box checked, the editor just beeps at you when you hit "Find".
Fixed now.
Regards, Nick