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------- Additional comments from mikekagan...@openoffice.org Tue May 4 22:15:14 +0000 2010 ------- This issue relates to the fact that regex in OOo cannot go across paragraphs. E.g. you cannot change something like ^[:space:]*$^[:space:]*([:print:]) to $1 if you want, for instance, replace all manually formatted paragraphs with something else. This is a real exemple: sometimes we get texts that are totally manually formatted (from an ocr): all newlines are made using crlf, and all paragraphs are made by double-crlf. If I want to correct the formatting, I need to use msword. Nor you can insert paragraphs as a part of replacement. Hence the need to treat $^ as the special case, because it's the only way to get rid of empty paragraphs. Neither $ nor ^ represent a symbol by themselves, the "paragraph symbol" stays outside of them, it should not be affected by any replacement of the search like ^.*$ or even ^$, and there should be a way to specify the "paragraph symbol" in a query just as any other ordinary symbol. This would make the handle of ^$ consistent with all the other cases, making ^$ match the empty cell in a table (as it would not be tied to the "paragraph symbol" anymore, just to the beginning and the end of a block of text). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
