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

[email protected] changed:

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--- Comment #6 from [email protected] ---
I also was seeking out a solution to this "bug" as I am increasingly annoyed
that I cannot search for $$ and replace with $.  Or perhaps $^$ and replace
with $.  Or \n\n and replace with \n.  It is silly that I have to copy text
from LO Writer into Gedit so I can do something so basic and then copy it back.
 Go ahead and try it-  it seems it is impossible to remove double newlines in
LO/OO!

The other thing that makes absolutely no sense to me is even described in the
LO/OO help file:

""""
\n in the Search for text box stands for a line break that was inserted with
the Shift+Enter key combination.
\n in the Replace with text box stands for a paragraph break that can be
entered with the Enter or Return key.
""""

Really?  LO/OO treats \n as two totally different things depending on if it is
in the search box or the replace box?  That is about as user-friendly as a
cracked glass of nitroglycerin!  Wouldn't it have made more sense to keep \n as
a paragraph break and invent something new or reuse something not used for a
line break... maybe use \r or something?

I think the current behavior with at least the above example is horribly broken
at worst and very poorly designed at best.  Seems to me to be a toss-up between
a "bug" and an "enhancement".

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