terryjreedy
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3 years ago The doc currently just says that the Search, File Search, and Search&Replace dialogs exist for the corresponding menu entries. Add a short section in "Editing and navigation" to say more.
- Any selection becomes search target, except that S&R is buggy.
- Search is only within lines. .* and \n do not match \n even with RE.
- [x]RE uses Python re module, not tcl re. It applies to replace also. So if target RE has capture groups, \1 (and \gname? test) in replacement works.(match.expand(repl))
- Refer to re chapter and RegularExpression HOWTO.
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GitHub fields: ```python assignee = 'https://github.com/terryjreedy' closed_at = None created_at =
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title = 'IDLE: document search (find) and replace better'
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```
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