Dotan Cohen wrote:
Installing the extension (which I'm not doing) would solve
the problem for me, but may introduce other issues.
Why so negative?
It probably won’t introduce other issues.
Would you refuse to use a new version of a program, such as OOo because,
though it fixed some bugs, it will almost certainly introduce new bugs?
(Every version of OpenOffice.org has introduced new bugs.)
The macro is accessed through the Format bar as a separate command and
doesn’t change the normal Find & Replace behavior in any way. And you
can always uninstall it if you find it causes any problem whatsoever.
Do you believe that using macros is wrong (because any macro *may*
introduce other issues)?
The solution would
involve bringing the OOo behaviour in line with standard behaviour at
best, and at worst would involve assigning \n to a single entity no
matter where it is used.
That, of course, is *a* solution, but one that doesn’t exist at the
moment. And such a fix would introduce compatability issues with past
versions of OOo in respect to \n, and might possibly also
unintentionally introduce other issues. Can you assure me that no other
issues would ever be introduced in an attempted fix? So I guess you
really shouldn’t use that either, by your logic.
A more reasonable solution without changing anything else would be to
allow Unicode characters represented by \x followed by four digits to be
used in the “Replace with” box as well as in the “Search for” box. Then
one could replace $ with \x000A.
But attempting to implement that solution *might* also introduce other
issues.
In short, fear that any change *may* introduce new issues resolves
quickly into fear of any change whatsoever.
Jim Allan
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