You may have already used
\t to mean Tab in "Search for" field when "Regular expressions" is enabled in Replace dialog (Ctrl+F7) in Editor (F4) in Far Manager. One could think \t would work in "Replace with" field as well, but unfortunately that's not the case.How to input Tab without moving to next field?
Answer can be found in Editor's help page (F1 when in Editor without any dialogs opened or
hlf:Editor in command life), but you need to know what to look for.So when you are in Replace dialog in "Replace with" field you have to do following key combo:https://github.com/FarGroup/FarManager/blob/builds/3.0.6644/far/FarEng.hlf.m4#L3227 wrote: Ctrl+Q Treat the next key combination as a character code
Ctrl+Q Tab
which will show little right arrow (→) unless it is followed by non-horizontal-space character (in such case it turns into pure horizontal space).
References:
https://bugs.farmanager.com/view.php?id=1890