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From: darin@tmq.UUCP (Darin Adler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Finding/Replacing patterns with tabs
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Date: Sat, 15-Jun-85 17:34:34 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 15 17:34:34 1985
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> 
>       How does one change a pattern containing a tab character using MacWrite
> or Edit? Typing a tab in the change window causes the cursor to toggle between
> the pattern and replacement fields. Suppose you wanted to change all tabs to
> spaces...I have another editor from Manx that I could use if I get desperate,
> but I don't like vi-type editors (nor emacs). Certainly finding/replacing
> patterns with tabs is not beyond the power of editors "for the rest of us" -
> I hope. 
> 

Well the answer for Edit is simple.  If you hold down the Command (cloverleaf)
key while typing Tab or Return into a Find window, you get a box (undefined
character symbol) which will work for searching for the appropriate control
character.  For MacWrite, something along these lines works: copy a Tab from
the text, paste it into the Find or Change window.

What I would not give for 'vi' style regular expressions, or even a mac 'sed'!

Darin Adler
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