Search at position or in marked text

[Giuseppe Sonanini]

I have to handle big text files an therefor it would be helpful if I could define a column where the search argument I will find starts or that I can select "o in market text" in the search dialig as I can do it in the replace dialog.

[ben_josephs]

To find the string text only if it starts at column 20 (as in this line):

Use "Posix" regular expression syntax:

Configure | Preferences | Editor

[X] Use POSIX regular expression syntax

Search | Find... (<F5>):

Find what: ^.{19}text

[X] Regular expression

Replace All

The regular expression ^.{19} matches any 19 characters at the beginning of a line.

Unfortunately, you can't restrict a search to the current selection.