Regex and escape sequences in 'Find and replace'

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From: Ian Tindale
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 21:24

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The 'Find and replace' dialogue box could benefit from the addition of some
simple (yet powerful) regular expression abilities. Additionally, it would
be useful to have escape sequences, for things like tabs, newlines, etc.
This would enable, oh, off the top of my head, things like the ability to
search for any occurrences of a space immediately followed by a newline, so
that they could be replaced by just a newline (in circumstances where you'd
want to centre some type, but some of the lines might end in spaces). True,
it's a permanent alteration, but its nevertheless quite useful to be able to
do regex searches now and then.

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Ian Tindale
London

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