Search/Replace problem

[gcotterl]

The "Find what" string contains any character(s)
The "Replace with" string contains spaces (i.e., made by pressing the spacebar)

Under "Conditions", only "Text" is selected
Under "Scope" only "Active Document" is selected

When I click "Replace", "Replace Next" or "Replace All", the found string is replaced with tab characters (i.e., \t ) instead of with spaces.

What am I doing wrong?

[ben_josephs]

Clear
Configure | Preferences | Document Classes | <Class> | Tabulation | Convert new tabs to spaces
or, for the current document,
View | Document Properties | Tabulation | Convert new tabs to spaces

Edit:
I was wrong.
a. I had it the wrong way round (it should have been Set not Clear.)
b. I can't reproduce the reported effect anyway.
Sorry.

[gcotterl]

In the Configure step, under what <Class> do I find the Tabulation menu?

[ben_josephs]

All of them. Use the one(s) for whichever class(es) you want to apply that setting.

[gcotterl]

None of the Document Classes have a Tabulation category.

[ben_josephs]

In Configure | Preferences do you not see a tree like this:

Code: Select all

|- General
|- File
|- Editor
|- View
v· Document Classes
|  v· Default
|  |  |- Colors
|  |  |- Font
|  |  |- Printing
|  |  |- Syntax
|  |  |- Tabulation
|  >· Binary
...

?

[gcotterl]

Now, I see it

Code:
|- General
|- File
|- Editor
|- View
v· Document Classes
| v· Default
| | |- Colors
| | |- Font
| | |- Printing
| | |- Syntax
| | |- Tabulation
| >· Binary

On the Tabulation page:
The Default tab spacing value = 8
The Indent size = 8
The Convert new tabs to spaces is not ticked
The Convert existing tabs to spaces when saving files is not ticked.
The Tab stops boxes are empty.

[ben_josephs]

I was wrong.
a. I had it the wrong way round (it should have been Set not Clear.)
b. I can't reproduce the reported effect anyway.
Sorry.

[gcotterl]

If my document contains tab characters (\t), I want to retain the tabs.

Why would I tick ("set") "Convert new tabs to spaces".

Will that prevent tab characters when replacing the "Find What" term with spaces?