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Bug 40963 - SEARCH/REPLACE should allow use of regular expressions
Summary: SEARCH/REPLACE should allow use of regular expressions
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 19680
Alias: None
Product: editor
Classification: Unclassified
Component: -- Other -- (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@editor
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Reported: 2004-03-12 16:17 UTC by _ gtzabari
Modified: 2007-11-05 13:44 UTC (History)
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Description _ gtzabari 2004-03-12 16:17:18 UTC 
This issue is a superset of issue #26810.

This will allow us to replace tabs, newlines or
any other combinations we can dream of. Other
editors support this and it works quite well.
Comment 1 _ gtzabari 2004-03-12 16:28:06 UTC 
I should point out that the file-system FIND operation already
supports searching for regular expressions so reusing that code in the
editor should be rather easy. Their UI is pretty decent as well.
Comment 2 _ gtzabari 2004-03-12 16:28:59 UTC 
One other approach (used by TextPad, another editor) is that you have
a single SEARCH/REPLACE UI with a checkbox that reads "regular
expression" and when enabled, both source/target strings are assumed
to be regular expressions.
Comment 3 Miloslav Metelka 2004-03-12 16:35:08 UTC 
Yes, I agree that we should finally find a time to implement this
feature into promoD or share the functionality with find-in-FS.
Comment 4 psuk 2004-03-19 12:45:43 UTC 

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 19680 ***