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Searched pattern looks like text9 I search for (text)9 I want to replace with \15 so that I would get text5 but instead it's just giving me text . Any other character works except for digits. As it turns out, the PCRE-style back-references do not work. So, you have to use \015 to replace with the text captured with the first capturing group ( \01 ) and 5 . Since there cannot be more than 99 capturing groups, and both the digits after \ are treated as back-reference group number, \01 is interpreted as the reference to the first group, and the rest are literal digits. The replacement term \15 is

Is there a preference in Textwrangler to redefine a tab as 4 spaces? In Vim this is set expandtab in the vimrc, but I don't know how to set it in TW besides clicking "Detab" when I'm done editing the document. Thanks, Kevin Go to "Preferences" -> "Editor Defaults" -> "Auto-expand tabs," and then set tabs to 4 spaces. Then restart TextWrangler for changes to take place. For docs that already exist you have to hit the "Text options" button in the top of the editor window of the open document. It's the button that looks like a "T" with a light switch next to it. In that drop down there is the