Have you tried quitting Nisus and then relaunch?
I just cranked up Nisus 1.3 to see what happens, and it couldn't find  
anything I asked it.  Then somehow it would "Find All" but didn't  
show them selected! (reported three hits and copy got them, or bksp  
killed them all.

So I was about to give up and then relaunched and it worked normal.
So maybe a relaunch would be worth trying...

	Now I'm frustrated too, with erratic behaviour! :-)

Incidentally, upon a lark I checked, and after the relaunch, the back- 
slashes work as you'd expect in PowerFind Pro.

	Ben Andrus

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On 2011 Aug 6, Sat, at 2:22 pm, Robert B. Waltz wrote:

> On 8/6/11, Andrus wrote:
>
>> Can you get any help by recreating the function in Powerfind, then  
>> when it works, switch it to PowerFind Pro and see what Nisus  
>> creates in the Pro code?
>
> I tried that. And the PowerFind to PowerFindPro conversion gets it  
> wrong -- it converts ..(1plus) to ..+ (or something to that  
> effect). That latter string when placed in a macro does exactly  
> what is expected of it: it selects the whole document. The question  
> is what to use instead of \.\., which ALSO selects the whole  
> document. :-(
> -- 
> Bob Waltz
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