Bug#402209: make finding in gedit more 'intuitive'

[Josselin Mouette]

forwarded 402209 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328637
thanks

Le vendredi 08 décembre 2006 à 22:13 +0100, Fabian Greffrath a écrit :
> I wanted gedit to find the string '\newline' within a LaTeX document, so
> I entered it in the 'Find' dialog. After clicking 'Find' gedit claimed
> that it has not found the string, although I could see it at least three
> times with my own eyes.
> 
> I took a few minutes until I realized that when entering something like
> '\n' gedit does not look for the string '\n' but interpretes it as
> 'newline'. I had to enter '\\newline' to make gedit find what I
> expected. Similar things happen with '\t' etc. 
> 
> Of course this is a powerful feature and now that I know about it, I do
> not want to miss it anymore. But it MUST be documented somewhere! Or
> even better: It should be possible to turn the feature 'on' and 'off' in
> the 'Find' dailog. This is especially important for new users I think...

Thanks for your report.

There is already an upstream bug about that. You may want to subscribe
to the bug to follow how the issue is dealt with.

Regards,
-- 
Josselin Mouette                /\./\

"Do you have any more insane proposals for me?"
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