Here's another one that's not quite clean, but it's nicer than the original:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/how-to-search-for-text-inside-many-opendocument-files/ Cheers. MR On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > Blimey! I can't believe how many different ways of doing it have been > suggested and how many answers this thread has received. Brilliant work > everyone! I learn tons through this thread and really enjoyed it. > Many thanks and regards from > Tom :) > > > > On 31 August 2014 18:30, anne-ology <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Maybe it doesn't work in Linux, >> but LO's 'Find-Replace' works with multiple documents for me; >> [still with 3.4 ] >> >> The only thing that never worked is the 'Find', for some reason ;-) >> I'll click on that one by mistake at times, only to have the >> document sit doing nothing ... >> then I click on the Find-Replace and can find, or whatever, fine >> ;-) >> >> Was this a bug back-then or what? >> >> >> >> From: Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster <[email protected]> >> Date: Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:48 AM >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text >> search in set of documents? >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> On 08/30/2014 07:34 AM, James Wilde wrote: >> >> > On 2014-08-30 13:29, Tom Davies wrote: >> > >> >> Hi :) >> >> Hmm, sadly Writer doesn't seem to do quite the same thing as GEdit. >> >> >> > Tom, I have an idea that there is a find/copy/paste add-on for LO which >> > works on multiple files. I used it when I was using LO for my writing >> > (I now use Scrivener for books and such). I could change the name of a >> > character throughout a book with a simple command. >> > >> > James >> > >> > >> Yes, I remember something like that as well, but I do not remember what it >> was or what version of LO it was used with. >> >> That would be real handy for book authors and editors. >> >> Piers Anthony, a highly regarded SciFi and Fantasy writer, used Fedora and >> LO for writing his books. He is in his mid 70's now so he has scaled back >> to 1 or 2 books per year, instead of 3 or more. He has created macros to >> help him do the work he needs and uses a different keyboard layout than the >> standard QWERTY keyboard. In one of his Author's Notes, he stated that he >> needed a package that worked with his type of keyboard and had the ability >> to create/use the types of macros he needs for making his writing easier. >> He seems to be a big "fan" of having multiple documents open at the same >> time and editing across those documents. >> >> SO, you should be able to find the extension needed for your cross-document >> editing. >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
