Friday, May 25, 2012

Re: Substitution of metacharacters

On Fri, May 25, 2012 11:32, Chris Jones wrote:
> Search/replace behavior in the GUI is not only different than in the
> console version but appears to lead to inconsistencies: try a search
> '.*' for instance and compare with '\s\s'.

I think the search/replace dialog uses the \V atom to make the
search "very nomagic", so you need to use \.\*

It seems the windows version of the replace dialog is also missing a
direction radio-button.

regards,
Christian

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