<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Rob McBroom wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:E253E005-A742-4EC5-A23B-33868612BA7B@skurfer.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">All of these characters are invisible and the "Show Invisibles" command represents them all with the same diamond character. I hate to say it, but if you need to deal with literal control characters in a file, you should probably use something in the Terminal, like Vim. </pre> </blockquote> I'm kind of surprised TextMate doesn't already have a way to do this, and I'm really surprised that you can't use octal escape sequences such as \001 as a replacement expression in the Find/Replace dialog. But you can work around it... For general conversions, here's a simple command: <tt>/usr/bin/tr 'a-zA-Z' '\001-\032\001-\032'</tt> Use the Bundle Editor to make a new command, input = "Selected Text" or "Character", output = "Replace Selected Text". Type and select a letter and run that command to turn it into the equivalent control character. If you just have a specific few characters you often need to insert it might be easier to make them into tab triggers. For example, if you need to insert a control-X create a tab trigger like: <tt>echo 'x' | /usr/bin/tr 'a-zA-Z' '\001-\032\001-\032'</tt> And assign it a key sequence you find convenient. (And, hopefully TM2 will have some way to assign unique symbols to different control characters when "show invisibles" is on!) <div class="moz-signature">-- <address style="font-family: sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-size: smaller;"> Steve King Sr. Software Engineer Arbor Networks +1 734 821 1461 <a href="http://www.arbornetworks.com/">www.arbornetworks.com</a> </address> </div> </body> </html>