How do I search for control characters, like TAB, LINE FEED, etc..

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How do I search for control characters, like TAB, LINE FEED, etc..

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That is, how do I represent a control character in the search box?
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Re: How do I search for control characters, like TAB, LINE FEED, etc..

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Unfortunately, that's not possible at the moment.
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Re: How do I search for control characters, like TAB, LINE FEED, etc..

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Please consider adding this feature. It's a fairly common ability in most text editors. For instance, I might want to change all, or some, of the tab characters to 2 or more spaces. and so forth.
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Re: How do I search for control characters, like TAB, LINE FEED, etc..

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We will certainly do that. Thank you for the suggestion.
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