Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site amd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!amd!ching From: ching@amd.UUCP (Mike Ching) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Megamax Include problem solved - dialog box bug? Message-ID: <1880@amd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 12:33:36 EST Article-I.D.: amd.1880 Posted: Wed Oct 30 12:33:36 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 00:32:12 EST References: <547@seismo.CSS.GOV> <> Reply-To: ching@amd.UUCP (Mike Ching) Organization: AMD, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 19 Summary: Really how to search/replace special characters In article <> berry@tolerant.UUCP (David Berry) writes: >> Well, I solved my include file problem, but I don't know what was wrong. >> I dinked with the line in question to no avail (couldn't find any >> magic characters, but then I didn't go to the extreme of Fedit), so >> I finally just chopped out about 10 lines (5 either side of the problem) >> and typed it in again. That fixed it. I am buying a garlic garland >> to put on top of the disk drive this afternoon. > >... > It is then >relatively easy to manually remove them (sure would be nice if >there were a way to specify special characters (tabs/enter/return/etc.) >to search/replace...) If special characters exist in the file, they can be specified in a search/replace by cutting them and pasting them in the search field. I frequently have to remove linefeeds from files transferred from another computer and just cut one from the text, start the search dialog, and paste the linefeed in the box.