https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130005
--- Comment #8 from Adalbert Hanßen <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Caolán McNamara from comment #5) > ctrl+shift+s works for me in gtk3 in e.g. the find and replace dialog, to > show the insert special character dialog. At least since issue #142706 done > in 2021 which is newer than comments 1-3 so this sounds like a duplicate of > #142706 > > On the other hand comment #4 is about a contemporary version which should > have the fix (signalEntryInsertSpecialCharKeyPress in > vcl/unx/gtk3/gtkinst.cxx) in it Today I looked into this one again. The problem seems to have been resolved by allowing to introduce things like currency characters, greek characters, EN_DASH and other characters not directly on the keyboard. I misunderstood the original trick. I was looking for something which lets me replace paragraph marks by forced feedbacks, or tabs by something else which I have defined. Microsoft Word has something similar, but I don't recall their exact syntax, perhaps it was ^p, ^n and so on I (which is also quite ununsual). There is an extension AltSearch 1.4.2.oxt which lets one replace paragraph marks by forced feedbacks and so on. Unfortunately AltSearch has some bugs and it looks like not being supported any longer. In 2011 Timur started a never ending discussion on the usability of Find and Replace in LibreOffice (https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38261). In comment 11 on this topic, Jax has already complained about AltSearch's features and bugs. In comment 20 I supported his view referring to similar request in OpenOffice from 2003 (happy birthday, it's mature now) and I reminded, that a "batch" feature assigning a name to such a storable replacement rule like in AltSearch must not be forgotten, since writing good regular expressions is not an easy task. In comment 25 to that thread I discussed the important features to be incorporated into LO Writer's native Search&Replace. But this discussion was not in vain, because Shift-Ctl-S provides another property that has not been considered in the other discussions. So you can't lose that either. In AltSearch version 1.4.2 Shift-Ctl-S works by the way! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
