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Search in Editor (no regexp) is using characters *, ? as normal characters, you don't need to escape them. Search in Files (no regexp) is using characters *, ? as one or many characters and if you want use exactly *, ? you need to escape them. This is not consistent. There can be surprises when you replace in files.
Created attachment 116395 [details] Message Log As asked with ticket #209202, messages.log attached. Some other to follow
Created attachment 116396 [details] Message Log (continued)
Created attachment 116397 [details] Message Log (continued and ending)
Sorry, wrong bug. Do not take messages.log files above into account, they refere to bug #207903 (not #207913)
Fixed in bug 224328. Thank you for reporting it.