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I'm stumped about a "stack overflow" error--"out of stack space (application error code: 12246)--that I'm getting in BBEdit when I do a "replace all", searching for (@article(((?!eprint|@article|@book).)*\r)*)pmid = {(.+)}((((?!eprint|@article|@book).)*\r)*(@|\r*\z)) and replacing with \1eprinttype = {pubmed}, eprint = {\4}\5 I can use these same patterns manually, doing one-at-a-time find & replace, without any errors, even once the match no longer occurs. I can also avoid the error by working on smaller files. I suspect that it's my inefficient and sloppy regex coding that's to blame, and

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

A long while back I transitioned to doing all my web application development in Eclipse from BBEdit. But I miss one little feature from BBEdit. I used to be able to show invisible characters like tabs but not show other invisibles like spaces. I know that I can bulk turn all of these on in Eclipse, but I wonder if there is a way to show only some invisibles in Eclipse. Aaron Digulla Unfortunately, you can only turn on all invisible (whitespace) characters at the same time. I suggest you file an enhancement request but I doubt they will pick it up. The text component in Eclipse is very