Issue 29829 - Find&replace handles paragraph marks and line breaks strangely
Summary: Find&replace handles paragraph marks and line breaks strangely
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: Other Linux, all
: P3 Trivial with 14 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa
: 1971 37211 43011 51240 65271 87365 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2004-06-03 14:42 UTC by bjohnsonoo
Modified: 2013-12-19 13:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description bjohnsonoo 2004-06-03 14:42:13 UTC 
When using find and replace with the regular expressions turned on, finding '\n'
and replacing with '\n' will find all line breaks and replace with paragraph
marks .  I think it should replace with the same thing that it finds .. a line break

It is confusing to my users to find paragraph marks with '$' but must use '\n'
to represent paragraphs marks in the replace box.  Any correction to the above
issue should provide an alternative method to specify a paragraph mark in the
replace box (using '$' currently doesn't work)
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2004-06-03 15:23:40 UTC 
SBA, please evaluate.
Comment 2 lohmaier 2004-07-03 22:41:05 UTC 
see also: issue 25177
Comment 3 jack.warchold 2004-09-01 15:06:27 UTC 
confirmed should be improved by UserEx
reassigend to bh
Comment 4 lohmaier 2004-11-16 18:14:37 UTC 
*** Issue 37211 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 5 lohmaier 2005-06-27 18:08:09 UTC 
*** Issue 51240 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 6 lohmaier 2005-06-27 18:10:19 UTC 
*** Issue 1971 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 7 lohmaier 2005-06-27 18:13:46 UTC 
*** Issue 43011 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 8 lars 2006-05-11 11:19:45 UTC 
*** Issue 65271 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 9 subskriber 2006-05-12 23:47:58 UTC 
While the report presumes that you actually can find & replace line breaks with
paragraph breaks (complains about the function being cumbersome) this function
actually does not work.
"When using find and replace with the regular expressions turned on, finding '\n'
and replacing with '\n' will find all line breaks and replace with paragraph
marks " - and this is not true.
Comment 10 lohmaier 2006-05-20 00:36:51 UTC 
If you think it is not true, file a seperate issue with detailed explanations on
how to reproduce. It works exaclty as described.
Comment 11 stefan.baltzer 2008-09-19 16:12:18 UTC 
*** Issue 87365 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 12 eric.savary 2008-09-21 14:16:33 UTC 
*** Issue 87365 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 13 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:55:04 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".
Comment 14 spook 2013-12-19 13:11:59 UTC 
Users should be able to search and replace across paragraph marks (for example, taking out a blank paragraph limited to stipulated paragraph endings and beginnings.

E.g. Search for:
</p>

<p>

and replace with:
</p>
<p>

This kind of search and replace is very tedious in OO