https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165725
--- Comment #23 from V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #22) > (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #21) > > I kind of doubt we are going to end up with anything implemented as a > > single concise regex. > > Other than some artificial limits, why the doubt? It doesn't sound that > far-fetched. Spoken yet again with ignorance of the ODF document model. The documents are not Flat text files that regex pattern matching can efficiently parse. sed based regex stream edits of an archives content.xml and/or styles.xml outside of an active LO session is certainly doable now, but doing it in process for an open document against temp files would add a lot of complexity for what is already pretty well handled as general search--just lacking some of the convenience of concise regex pattern buffers in the substitution. Sorry, but "shoehorning" such into a GUI with acceptable Find & Replace UX is not likely to happen, it is not reasonable to ask devs for something that simply won't work with ICU libs regex syntax and would be better extending the general replace functions. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
