Hi Jürgen, Reply in-line. On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 09:42 +0100, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > you bring up some good ideas (i have missed some of them as well) and > the best way to bring them in the product is to submit feature requests.
I agree, but what I want is some discussion first so that a clear specification can be put together. At the end of this email are 57 related issue numbers and summaries - I would much rather that developer time was spent reading one specification that has been discussed and hopefully had some consensus from the community than wading through all these issues. > Macros are good for rapid prototyping and for special user related > functions. But you requested very common features and it would be best > to integrate them in the existing functonality, implement them in C++ > and integrate them in the existing find&replace dialog and/or extend > this dialog. Agree entirely! I see all of my macros in this light - it is the spirit in which I developed them. Quick prototypes for discussion so that a better solution can be properly developed and included. In the meantime they act as a stop gap for that issue. > From a macro or component perspective you would have to repalce the > existing dialog with a new implementation or create a second special > find&replace dialog for the new feature which of course would be > confusing from a user experience perspective. > So please attach your macro to the feature request that the people who > will write the specification get an idea how it should work exactly. I have attached it to issue 18375. > The anomaly of \n is simply a bug from my point of view and you should > submit an issue for that It has already been added see issue 29829. > Thanks Juergen Some related issues related to find replace: Issue Description 2944 Find & Replace within selected text/cells 2997 Allow search and replace of character styles in "Find and R 7372 Enhance Find & Replace for formatting in Calc 9749 Find & Replace' never finds the Drawing Object Text. 10156 Find & Replace. Option to start at beginning 10157 Find & Replace: Add back find *button*. 10158 Find & Replace: Add "Find then Replace" and just "Replace". 10160 Find & Replace: Add MS style pattern matching 10161 Find & Replace: Add count to "find all" 11698 Make Find Dialog Box More Robust 15616 Find (and Replace) does not ignore custum hyphens 17188 Find and Replace doesn't take case of original word in to ac 18375 Request drop-down list of special characters in find box 19193 find dialogue: button: goto next occurence of match 19392 Last occurence of Find & Replace doesn't get updated on scre 19492 Allowing Find/Replace to find or replace new lines 19720 Find dialogue: return to original caret position if "Find al 20100 Find/Replace diolog losting the cursor focus 23545 index entries - find next similar entry - after current one 23750 unify "format" and "Atrributes" in find dialog 23759 Find and Replace eats too much memory (crashing most systems 23792 find & replace : insert special character lack full unicode 25177 Regular expressions in find and replace many combinations no 25772 Find & Repace - Replacement of capitals 28913 Need more regular expressions to ease "Find and Replace" 29829 Find&replace handles paragraph marks and line breaks strange 30939 Non-intuative way to change formatting in Find/Replace 31172 Find and Replace not accepting direct inputing of unicode ch 32685 Find Duplicate cells in Column or Row 33772 Strings in fields can not be found with "Find&Replace" 35093 Find and replace all on selected cells is misleading 37586 Find dialog stays in the way of the text you found 39453 Find & Replace Menu is too big and uncomfortable 39557 search for " should (optionally) find typographic quotes as 40024 Add wild cards to ease Find & Replace without "RegularExpres 41315 Find and replace in multiple openoffice documents 44196 Find erases the users data 44238 Find should highlight found string 44688 Searching with regular expression ^$ does not find empty cel 45574 "Find" panel layout adjustment 47165 Some extended help texts in Find & Replace dialog lost 48533 Find&Replace does not set default "Search for" string 49341 Find/Replace confuses Turkish character ı with Englısh i 49380 enable find and replace buttons when 'Search For' box is emp 50183 allow finding places referring to a, well, reference 50510 ^$ freezes writer (Find & replace) 50879 Find and Replace doesn’t work within textbox. 50953 Find/Replace dialog: "More options" on by default 51010 Find and Replace in Formula Editor 51653 Find/Replace not displaying properly 53113 find consistent shortcut key for Navigator for all modules 55186 Overlapping hotkey (~O) in English Find&Replace dialogue 55220 Suggestion for "Current selection only" behaviour in Find&Re 55747 find and replace: move "Current selection only" to standard 56449 Find&Replace in selection replaces whole selection with repl 58930 Find & Replace Dialog: "Current selection only" is always di 59323 crash when do Find in different view Thanks, Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
