[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57633] Allow search/replace CR and LF in GUI editor

[Torsten Lilge]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #57633 (project octave):

Some more information aside the problem with LF and CR:

* Any control character can be search in RegExp mode by just entering \xHH
into the search field. This searches for the Hex-Character HH, e.g., \x00 for
NUL and \x07 for BEL (see [1], no. 12)
* Unfortunately, the same syntax does not work for the replace strings.
Entering \xHH for the replace string just leads to \xHH in the text.
* However, using \a, \t, \f etc as replace strings works.
* \0 does not work, it is used for the complete matched expression (comparable
to \1, \2 etc. when using RegExp).

An extended mode as the one of notepad++ might help for the replace string. In
this case, we could parse for \x and then insert the following control
character HH instead of the string \xHH.


[1]  https://www.scintilla.org/SciTERegEx.html

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