Bug#45529: replace *with* regular expression
Anders Lund <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.devel.kate |
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| Organization | Saguaro |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Saturday 20 July 2002 20:28, [email protected] wrote: > Package: kate > Version: KDE 3.0.6 CVS/CVSup/Snapshot > Severity: wishlist > Installed from: Compiled sources > Compiler: Not Specified > OS: Not Specified > OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified > > You can already search for regular expressions, but it would be great if > you can also replace *with* things like \n, \t etc. Currently \n get's > inserted as a backslash and an "n". If regexp search is on, it should be > inserted as a line break (Nedit does it that way). Why? that would mean that I couldn't replace the string "\n" when using regexp. What could be done would be using some notation of common escaped chars, like "^P" (newline), "^T" (TAB) etc. That could (should!) be used to enable finding phrases crossing lines as well. -anders (Complete bug history is available at http://bugs.kde.org/db/45/45529.html)