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+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+ type="guide"
+ id="gedit-search-and-replace">
+
+ <info>
+ <link type="guide" xref="index#gedit-working-with-files" group="sixth" />
+ <desc>Find and replace portions of text in a file.</desc>
+ </info>
+
+ <title>Search and replace</title>
+
+ <links type="topic" groups="first" />
+
+ <section>
+ <title>The simple search</title>
+ <p>
+ To open the search entry field, click on:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <guiseq>
+ <gui style="menu">Menu Button</gui>
+ <gui style="menuitem">Find…</gui>
+ </guiseq>
+ </p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>The search and replace</title>
+ <p>
+ To open the Find and Replace dialog, click on:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <guiseq>
+ <gui style="menu">Menu Button</gui>
+ <gui style="menuitem">Find and Replace…</gui>
+ </guiseq>
+ </p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Clear highlight</title>
+ <p>
+ Usually, the text that you've searched for will remain highlighted in the
+ document. To remove the highlight, click on:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <guiseq>
+ <gui style="menu">Menu Button</gui>
+ <gui style="menuitem">Clear Highlight</gui>
+ </guiseq>
+ </p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Tips</title>
+ <p>
+ If you first select a portion of text in the document, and then start a
+ simple search or open the Find and Replace dialog, the text you've
+ selected will appear in the search entry.
+ </p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Search options</title>
+ <p>
+ The Find and Replace dialog presents the search options as check boxes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For the simple search, click on the
+ <gui style="button">Magnifying Glass</gui> icon in the search entry field.
+ </p>
+ <list>
+ <item><p>
+ Select <gui>Match Case</gui> to make the search case sensitive.
+ </p></item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Select <gui>Match Entire Word Only</gui> to search for a specific word
+ without including fragments of other words.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For example, if you searched for the word “and” with this option
+ selected, the word “and” would be matched, but the words
+ “sand” and “comm<em>and</em>er” would not be matched.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ <item><p>
+ Select <gui>Wrap Around</gui> to continue at the other end of the
+ document when going to the next or previous search result.
+ </p></item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Using escape sequences</title>
+ <p>
+ In a search or replace entry, you can use <em>escape sequences</em> with
+ the following meanings:
+ </p>
+ <terms>
+ <item>
+ <title>\n</title>
+ <p>Newline</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <title>\r</title>
+ <p>Carriage return</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <title>\t</title>
+ <p>Tab</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <title>\\</title>
+ <p>
+ Backslash. If you actually want a backslash and avoid one of the above
+ special meanings, the backslash needs to be escaped.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ </terms>
+ </section>
+</page>