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Search/Replace dialog

You can reach the search/replace dialog via menu item Edit - Search and Edit - Replace, or you can use the key commands Ctrl-QF ("find") and Ctrl-QA.

Case sensitive

"Case sensitive" means that the search function makes a difference between capital and lowercase letters.

Search or replace several words

The search algorithm works line-orientated. If you enter an expression containing two words or more, and the second word is in the next line, you won't find the expression. (I will improve that in a later version.)

How to enter special characters into the edit field

To enter an arbitrary ASCII character which is not available on the keyboard, write a hash (double cross), followed by three digits for the ASCII decimal code. If the ASCII code has only one or two digits, then use zero characters: hash-002. Enterig ^ and B (^B) accesses the same character in Wordstar notation.

If the hash sign is not followed by three digits, the string is treated normally.

Anyway, you can use the clipboard to copy these special characters from the editor into the clipboard (Ctrl-Ins) and then to the edit field of the search/replace dialog (Shift-Ins).