Searching for Non printing characters

Submitted by northernfrontier on Tuesday, 25 October, 2005 - 21:21

How do you search for non-printing characters? ie: Searching for and replacing all carriage returns with tabs or vice versa...

Use Search > Find mark on th

by ApeHanger on Wed, 26/10/2005 - 11:11

Use Search > Find
mark on the Dialog Settings: Regular Expressions
then enter in the Search for Field: \r
and in the Replace with Section: \t

Tip: in the jEdit Help there is a section jEdits Users Guide > Using jEdit > Regular Expressions you will find a list of "Character Class Shortcuts"

.Ape

Searching for "\r" doesn't wo

by user2037 on Wed, 20/05/2009 - 18:55

Searching for "\r" doesn't work with Jedit 4.3-pre16 or 4.2-final on Ubuntu 9.04.

Maybe "\n" does the job. R

by Robert Schwenn on Wed, 20/05/2009 - 20:47

Maybe "\n" does the job.

Robert

Searching for not printing characters

by northernfrontier on Thu, 27/10/2005 - 01:11

Thanks much, converting over from BBedit, which kind of combined regexp and the regular searching all into one...

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