[PLUG] OO.o: replacing tabs

[Anthony Schlemmer]

Cool...I didn't notice your "00.o" in the message subject last night so 
"expand" wouldn't work unless your editing a text file.

That'll teach me to post late at night... :-)

Tony

On Saturday 04 October 2003 08:57 am, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
> > You might try the "expand" utility which converts tabs to spaces.
> > By default it converts each <TAB> to 8 spaces but I believe you can
> > tell it how many spaces you want each <TAB> converted to. If you
> > want to convert spaces to <TAB> use "unexpand".
>
> Tony,
>
>   I'll post the solution to this perplexing problem in the hope that
> others benefit from what I learned. The problem is that regex
> search-and-replace did _not_ work in versions prior to 1.1.0 (or, as
> it's still known: RC5). I kept putting '\t' in the search box,
> checking the regex checkbox widget, and getting no results.
>
>   So, yesterday afternoon I downloaded the RC5 -- which is the 1.1.0
> release, installed it and moved all my templates and configurations
> to it. Lo and behold: regex works!
>
>   Now, finding all underlined text and rplacing it with the same text
> but not underlined still doesn't work for me, but I'll pass on how to
> do that, too, when I learn how.
>
> Thanks for your suggestion,
>
> Rich
>
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