Cannot find or replace two or more spaces

[colemarc]

This is disconcerting.

I have a pretty normal text file containing spaces.
If I search (F5) for a single space it finds all the instances.
If I search for two or more consecutive spaces it does not find anything, but I am pretty sure there are consecutive spaces.
If instead of pressing the space bar twice I copy-paste two consecutive spaces from the text then it finds them.

Same for Replace (F8).

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[bbadmin]

Seems likely that some of your space characters are tabs. You can easily confirm that by turning on visible spaces.

To find one or more mixed space characters, search for "\s+" and turn on regular expressions.

[colemarc]

I thought so, but I was confused because it seemed that one space would find them all.
Now I cannot reproduce the problem in another file, therefore you are most likely right.

Thank you