This seems a little odd. I’m doing a search for the tab character in a script. I copy and pasts a tab in the find field, and it correctly finds any tabs that form the indents, but doesn’t find other tabs in the text.
In my case I have some tabbed text in the comments that I want to replace with " – " but find change can’t find and change them.
If I uncomment the line, it still doesn’t find them, and it doesn’t find tabs in commented text or plain uncompiled text, unless the tab is in quotes.
Ed, looks like you’ve got it figured out. But FYI, I always do stuff like this in BBEdit. In fact, there’s even an SD menu item to edit your script in BBEdit.
The BBEdit find/replace tool is much easier to use.
Thanks. I’m aware of that. It’s rare that would want to edit an entire script in BBEdit so I have a script that puts the SD selection in a new BBEdit (or text wrangler) document.
That said, since we’re beta testing SD, whenever I encounter an issue with a feature I report it here, even if I know an easy workaround.