https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58744

--- Comment #5 from David <[email protected]> ---
I'd like to add my voice to the request for this development to move to
solution.

I also support comment #3 and appreciate DouglasCarnall's pithy "tl;dr" that
captures the situation nicely. (I can't see what is relevant "inked discussion
at 46165", however - is that bug number a typo?)

Another "real world" scenario is the possibility of finding and removing
duplicate paragraphs. This is a common workflow: sort paragraphs > search on
continguous identical paragraphs > remove duplicates.

At the moment, so far as I know, this is not possible in Writer, either with
the "native" CTRL-H + regex search/replace (which cannot match across $
paragraph boundaries), or with the AltSearch extension (which cannot use
back-references in searches with * -- although it can make matches across
paragraph breaks).

There is some discussion of this at AskLibreOffice:

http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/27682/regular-expression-references-not-working/

It would be wonderful to see this "fixed"!

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