Open the Find window and setting the cursor

[js]

I often need to find a certain type of numerical expression that occurs after a tab, and I thought I might write a simple macro that opens the find window, puts a tab and sets the cursor after it, like

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Find and Replace '\t', '', 'E!'
Show find
Select End

But unexpectedly I run into two problems:
1) If the Find window is already open „Show find“ makes it disappear.
2) It seems the the Select end command does not execute in the find window
Is there a solution to this?

[martin]

I'm sorry to say that there is no solution to this. I'll file two issues on this: first that the selection commands can't modify the Find dialog and another that Show Find menu should be literal in macros (and we should have a Hide Find command as well). Thanks.

[Kino]

This one will do the job in NWP 1.3 or later.

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$find = Cast to String '\t'
Find and Replace $find, '', 'E!'
Set Find Shown true
Send Selector 'moveToEndOfParagraph:'

or, if it is unnecessary to set the find options, …

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Set Find Shown true
Send Text '\t'

Edit: added the second macro.