as mentioned above, behavior of CTRL-F has been redefined in the meantime. similar behavior can be reproduced by using CTRL-H now.
create a new document: - type letter a - type letter b - hit tabulator key - type letter c - type letter d now, if you select "ab" with the mouse and hit CTRL-H "ab" is inserted into the "search for" field. pressing "find" finds it. if you however select with the mouse "b c" then "b c" is inserted in the "search for" field and nothing is found. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311762 Title: Searching for selected text does not work with control characters Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: Confirmed Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: openoffice.org-writer if you have text selected and hit CTRL+F that text is inserted into the search field. this does not work if the text contains control characters like newline, newparagraph or tabulators. desired behaviour: it should work then, too. tested on open office 2.4 hardy and intrepid. --- ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12 Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111129.1) Package: libreoffice 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24 Tags: precise running-unity Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openoffice/+bug/311762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
