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When finding selected text, make the text literal.

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:39 pm
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.

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:25 pm
by ak47wong
You do know you can clear the Regular expression check box to make the search string literal, right?