When finding selected text, make the text literal.

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When the find dialog is populated by selected text, the special characters should be escaped to make them literal

Yes - I would like to have this feature.
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No - I don't need this feature.
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melvers
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Joined: Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:52 pm

When finding selected text, make the text literal.

Post by melvers »

When I have selected text and I click on the the Find (or Replace) button, the text is entered into the Find dialog as is. However, if the find text contains a string like 'variable[value]', the brackets are treated as the special class expression rather than the literal brackets I would like. It would be convenient if, when the find dialog is populated by selected text, the special characters were escaped to make them literal. Possibly, this should be a selectable option on the dialog.
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ak47wong
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Location: Sydney, Australia

Post by ak47wong »

You do know you can clear the Regular expression check box to make the search string literal, right?
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