Hi Ian,
great job, i think your summary and the collection of all relevant
issues in this area can and will speed development of the new features
or at least fixing of the addressed problems.
Juergen
Ian Laurenson wrote:
Hi Jürgen,
Reply in-line.
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 09:42 +0100, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
you bring up some good ideas (i have missed some of them as well) and
the best way to bring them in the product is to submit feature requests.
I agree, but what I want is some discussion first so that a clear
specification can be put together. At the end of this email are 57
related issue numbers and summaries - I would much rather that developer
time was spent reading one specification that has been discussed and
hopefully had some consensus from the community than wading through all
these issues.
Macros are good for rapid prototyping and for special user related
functions. But you requested very common features and it would be best
to integrate them in the existing functonality, implement them in C++
and integrate them in the existing find&replace dialog and/or extend
this dialog.
Agree entirely! I see all of my macros in this light - it is the spirit
in which I developed them. Quick prototypes for discussion so that a
better solution can be properly developed and included. In the meantime
they act as a stop gap for that issue.
From a macro or component perspective you would have to repalce the
existing dialog with a new implementation or create a second special
find&replace dialog for the new feature which of course would be
confusing from a user experience perspective.
So please attach your macro to the feature request that the people who
will write the specification get an idea how it should work exactly.
I have attached it to issue 18375.
The anomaly of \n is simply a bug from my point of view and you should
submit an issue for that
It has already been added see issue 29829.
Thanks Juergen
Some related issues related to find replace:
Issue Description
2944 Find & Replace within selected text/cells
2997 Allow search and replace of character styles in "Find and R
7372 Enhance Find & Replace for formatting in Calc
9749 Find & Replace' never finds the Drawing Object Text.
10156 Find & Replace. Option to start at beginning
10157 Find & Replace: Add back find *button*.
10158 Find & Replace: Add "Find then Replace" and just "Replace".
10160 Find & Replace: Add MS style pattern matching
10161 Find & Replace: Add count to "find all"
11698 Make Find Dialog Box More Robust
15616 Find (and Replace) does not ignore custum hyphens
17188 Find and Replace doesn't take case of original word in to ac
18375 Request drop-down list of special characters in find box
19193 find dialogue: button: goto next occurence of match
19392 Last occurence of Find & Replace doesn't get updated on scre
19492 Allowing Find/Replace to find or replace new lines
19720 Find dialogue: return to original caret position if "Find al
20100 Find/Replace diolog losting the cursor focus
23545 index entries - find next similar entry - after current one
23750 unify "format" and "Atrributes" in find dialog
23759 Find and Replace eats too much memory (crashing most systems
23792 find & replace : insert special character lack full unicode
25177 Regular expressions in find and replace many combinations no
25772 Find & Repace - Replacement of capitals
28913 Need more regular expressions to ease "Find and Replace"
29829 Find&replace handles paragraph marks and line breaks strange
30939 Non-intuative way to change formatting in Find/Replace
31172 Find and Replace not accepting direct inputing of unicode ch
32685 Find Duplicate cells in Column or Row
33772 Strings in fields can not be found with "Find&Replace"
35093 Find and replace all on selected cells is misleading
37586 Find dialog stays in the way of the text you found
39453 Find & Replace Menu is too big and uncomfortable
39557 search for " should (optionally) find typographic quotes as
40024 Add wild cards to ease Find & Replace without "RegularExpres
41315 Find and replace in multiple openoffice documents
44196 Find erases the users data
44238 Find should highlight found string
44688 Searching with regular expression ^$ does not find empty cel
45574 "Find" panel layout adjustment
47165 Some extended help texts in Find & Replace dialog lost
48533 Find&Replace does not set default "Search for" string
49341 Find/Replace confuses Turkish character ı with Englısh i
49380 enable find and replace buttons when 'Search For' box is emp
50183 allow finding places referring to a, well, reference
50510 ^$ freezes writer (Find & replace)
50879 Find and Replace doesn’t work within textbox.
50953 Find/Replace dialog: "More options" on by default
51010 Find and Replace in Formula Editor
51653 Find/Replace not displaying properly
53113 find consistent shortcut key for Navigator for all modules
55186 Overlapping hotkey (~O) in English Find&Replace dialogue
55220 Suggestion for "Current selection only" behaviour in Find&Re
55747 find and replace: move "Current selection only" to standard
56449 Find&Replace in selection replaces whole selection with repl
58930 Find & Replace Dialog: "Current selection only" is always di
59323 crash when do Find in different view
Thanks, Ian
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