Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing
| Summary: | Cannot insert whitespace characters in Replace field | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [ECD] Orion | Reporter: | Mark Macdonald <mamacdon> |
| Component: | Editor | Assignee: | Silenio Quarti <Silenio_Quarti> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | Silenio_Quarti |
| Version: | 3.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 4.0 M2 | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows 7 | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
I am not sure how this stopped working. Anyways, I added support for the cases you mentioned. And to insert the literal "\t", it is necessary to type a double the slash -> "\\t". http://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/commit/?id=96bbc09d858c74946dbaa292ea43ff11d4260a27 |
Until recently escape sequences like \n and \t could be used in the Replace field, to insert newlines and tabs, like this: 1. Open the Find toolbar in an editor (Ctrl+F) 2. Enable the "Regular expression" option. 3. In the Find field enter ' {4}' (that is a space followed by {4}, without the quotation marks). 4. In the Replace field, enter \t This used to replace sequences of 4 spaces with a Tab character. But now it replaces them with the literal text "\t". Perhaps the old behavior was accidental, but I found it useful. I would like to have this in some form. FWIW the Eclipse desktop text editor supports several such escape sequences, including: \t Tab \r CR (U+000D) \n LF (U+000A) \R Default line delimiter of document