Enable Find and Replace to Search and Update Hidden Files (Dot Files)

In the site in question, several dozen. It's a rather large and very complex site.

The client's business has grown exponentially in the 10 years since I've been maintaining the site, opening new offices, adding new services, dropping some services that weren't profitable, splitting some services into multiple pages, and combining other services into single pages. The .htaccess files do traffic-cop duty redirecting hits on the old pages to the new ones, among other things.

There are also other hidden files whose content DW doesn't check, mainly scripts and the like that we don't want the public directly accessing. Basically it won't search in any dot files at all.

I was able to find all the http references in one of the bazillion text editors I have (I forget which one offhand), but I was surprised that DW doesn't have the capability to search in hidden files. Or if it does, I can't find the way to enable it.

Thanks,

Richard