https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165725
V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #21 from V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Walter from comment #20) > > I will start by summarising the issues presented and prioritise them. One > presented various times is the ability to search beyond the end of > paragraph. Do, since the issue of targeting styles has been resolved, I will > probably start by addressing the multiple line issue in regex. Would point out, again, that you can search entire documents (regex or general search). But what can not be done, and would require very complex refactoring, is regex pattern match within ODF document structure defined *across* object boundaries. There is no 'end of paragraph' to base a search on. Nor then handling such a pattern match for reformatting. IMHO regex pattern matching, which would be dependent on lookaround handling that is currently limited to 100 chrs IAMNM, is not suitable to such an edit task. Yes, it will be interesting to see where László takes things for his work implementing "different regex layout boundary marks... and hyphenation" for bug 165931, but suspect that will require some hybrid mix of F&R UI toggle with Find: and Replace: field parsing of regular expression to achieve something functional. But I kind of doubt we are going to end up with anything implemented as a single concise regex. More likely implementation would have to be similar to what the AltSearch extension had done previously with LO API and macro calls. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
