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jEdit won't search in files named "_*.*" - need a fix!
Submitted by tomcloyd on Friday, 6 June, 2008 - 19:51
I very rarely have problems with jEdit, which I use a lot, even though I'm only an avocational programmer. I'm right now having a problem I've not encountered before, and I'm sure I'm simply running into my own ignorance, but so far haven't found the fix. It's simple:

First, I'm on Kubuntu Linux 7.10, running jEdit 4.3 pre12, with java 1.6.0_03. I'm fairly new to Linux.

I have a fairly large number of text files (*.txt) in which I'm needing to do a search and replace involving a straightforward character string. It seems clear that jEdit simply will NOT open and search any of my files which begin with an underscore, and a lot of them do. This is a disaster, since doing a manual search is out of the question. I've certainly tried unchecking the "skip hidden/backup" option in the search modal window - it has NO effect. What's the problem here and what can I do to fix it, please?

Any help would be much appreciated!
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works on Windows
by Robert Schwenn on Sat, 07/06/2008 - 21:28
I tested directory search of jEdit 4.3pre14 with file filter *.txt under Windows XP. It found occurrences in files with names _*.txt.

Maybe You should try jEdit 4.3pre14 first, though the change history doesn't list a specified bugfix. If You then could reproduce the bug, You should file a bug report at the tracker .

Robert
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