https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91030
--- Comment #3 from Nick Levinson <[email protected]> --- Highlighting helps with the Search field but not for the Replace-With field, although we can select from elsewhere and copy into that field and edit it before clicking a button to find or replace, a complicasted method for nongeeks to remember, especially whern the cause is not always obvious (in the small size of the dialog's font it's hard to see that quotation marks are not curved). I use Writer partly to write website content in HTML, so the string "-->" is very useful as is, since it's a comment closer. But the commenter's point is well-taken for some other strings. Quotation marks and apostrophes are usually auto-replaced except in the search-and-replace dialog. Color alone should not be a differentiator, because that prevents accessibility for people with a color-perception problem. Color combined with a noncolor cue would be okay. I replaced "A" by "1" etc. and got either "Search key not found" or "Search key replaced 2 times". The latter is useful. The former is, too, except when it comes after having done the replacement using the Replace button, when it should instead say how many replacements have been done (one), as it does when the Replace All button is used. So the problem is with the Replace button. The Replace button causes the stroing to be selected but not replaced yet. Clicking the button again causes replacement but also gets an offer to start from the beginning of the document and clicking yes to that gets the not-found result. Clicking the Close button is okay but clicking the Replace button makes sense, getting the odd result. So the Replace button's result should be fixed. Calc is similar but not identical. It may be that the Replace button remains selected so that pressing the Enter keyboard key causes the confusing result. This generally seems like a usability-friendliness issue rather than a technical internals one. This may need a separate bug report. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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