jimav, thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport . If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about the status. Thanks in advance.
** Description changed: Binary package hint: openoffice.org - In Find&Replace, a regular expression of "^" (without the quotes) never - matches anything in the Basic macro editor (it reportedly does work in - document text). "^" should match the front of every line. + 1) lsb_release -rd + Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS + Release: 12.04 - For example, if you want to comment out a block of code in the Basic macro editor, it should be possible to - Find ^ in a selection and replace it with "rem " and have "rem " inserted at the front of all the selected lines. - But ^ alone does not work, and never matches any lines. + 2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-calc + libreoffice-calc: + Installed: 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1 + Candidate: 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1 + Version table: + *** 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1 0 + 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages + 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status + 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1 0 + 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages - The use of of ^ alone to match the start of lines (and, similarly $ for - end-of-lines) has been a fundamental feature of regular expressions in - computer systems since they were first widely used in 1970s Unix. OO - should not deviate. + 3) What is expected to happen in Writer, Calc, or the Macro Editor is when one opens the Find & Replace window, with Regular Expression checkbox checked, in the Search for drop down put a circumflex in, and the beginning of every paragraph is found. Consulting the LO Wiki and built-in LO help, it is implied that using a circumflex by itself in the find field should match the beginning of a paragraph: + http://help.libreoffice.org/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions + + 4) What happens instead is nothing is found. + + WORKAROUND: Notepad++ 6.1.2: + http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.1.2.html + + via WINE. + + apt-cache policy wine1.5 + wine1.5: + Installed: 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17 + Candidate: 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17 + Version table: + *** 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17 0 + 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages + 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Oct 30 11:36:03 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-4ubuntu2 [modified: var/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/program/services.rdb] ProcEnviron: - PATH=(custom, no user) - LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + PATH=(custom, no user) + LANG=en_US.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.41-generic SourcePackage: openoffice.org Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64 ** Tags added: i386 precise ** Summary changed: - Regular Expression Search for cirumflex by itself does find beginning of a paragraph + Regular Expression Search for cirumflex by itself does not find beginning of a paragraph ** Changed in: df-libreoffice Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465309 Title: Regular Expression Search for cirumflex by itself does not find beginning of a paragraph To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/465309/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
