[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 62603] Regular expression replacements affect formatting in undesired ways

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--- Comment #15 from Justin L  ---
Created attachment 127228
  --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=127228=edit
findReplace_formatTest.doc: simplify testing with a copy/paste/highlight doc.

confirmed still a bug in LO 5.3dev, and has existed since at least
bibisect-43all LO3.6 (oldest I can test in Ubuntu 16.04).

Regex is irrelevant - it happens without regex as well.  Basically,
Find/Replace applies the format of the first character across the entire
replaced string.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 62603] Regular expression replacements affect formatting in undesired ways

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--- Comment #14 from Luke Kendall  ---
Could this be assigned to someone?  There are some global edits I need to do,
but do not dare to, because of this bug: the work it would cause me to fix the
text afterwards would be about the same as doing the global edits manually.

I'm thinking I may need to switch to some other .docx or .odt editor (liem
Office) just to do the global edit.  But I'm not optimistic, because
round-tripping tends to break some header/footer/paragraph styles in strange
ways.

And because of https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99015 I
can't edit the XML directly, either, as an ugly/desperation workaround.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 62603] Regular expression replacements affect formatting in undesired ways

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--- Comment #12 from Beluga  ---
Ok, Luke, I added you to contributors. Drop by on IRC whenever you feel like
discussing things: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/IRC

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--- Comment #11 from Luke Kendall  ---
Sorry, I've been absolutely flat-out getting my novel published, and Christmas
and New Year (and I still am, as I'm now finalising the print edition(s) and
starting to plan the book launch), but I'd be happy enough to do so.

I had a look at the link provided, and had a look at the flowchart, which is
clear and makes good sense to me.  So, yes, I'm happy to get involved as you
suggest.

My apologies for the long delay in replying.  I have now added myself to the Cc
list, so I'll notice further emails much more quickly (rather than noticing it
because I happened to come back to see if anything had changed).

Cheers,
luke

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 62603] Regular expression replacements affect formatting in undesired ways

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--- Comment #13 from Beluga  ---
Setting priority to high.

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 62603] Regular expression replacements affect formatting in undesired ways

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--- Comment #9 from Luke Kendall  ---
I would like to suggest that this bug level is probably critical, as the
correct encoding of text attribute is lost.  This is data loss.  F damages
the document content, and the more replacements that are made, the bigger the
damage caused. 

In some ways the damage is made worse by the fact that the damage it causes is
a little subtle, so you may not even notice the errors introduced until (like
me), you have made so many other changes that you can't simply revert to an
earlier copy of your document (assuming you have one).

It also means that Find with regular expressions cannot be used - or at
least, cannot be used to do the actual replacement.  So it is also a major loss
of function: but the data loss is worse.

I do not have permission to increase the bug severity: I hope that I have
argued the case for such a change, however.

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--- Comment #10 from Beluga  ---
Ok, adjusting per
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/0/06/Prioritizing_Bugs_Flowchart.jpg

Luke: would you like to join the QA? team
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA
Then we could discuss prioritizing and give you the rights to do it.

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--- Comment #8 from Luke Kendall  ---
I should add, I'm using LO 5.0.3, on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04).

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--- Comment #7 from Luke Kendall  ---
Yes, I found that somehow, all my non-breaking spaces in my  pairs of
spaces between sentences had been lost: changed into just plain .  I
did a regexp search and replace to fix them all.  Some days later, I noticed
that wherever the replacement was made and the end of the sentence was in
italics, it copied the italic style across to the first character of the next
sentence.  

Likewise, where the end of the 1st sentence was Regular, and the 2nd sentence
was italic, the 1st character of the italic sentence was changed to Regular.

Caused me a lot of work to manually find and fix them.  This is a truly
horrible bug.  Because you can't search for text and include atribute style
changes, you can't easily find them, and you certainly can't fix them with a
big search and replace.  Given that my novel is over 130,000 words long, his
bug is really punishing me.

That's twice, now, this bug has affected my novel, and I've had to manually fix
it.  At least this time I found this bug report, and found what caused it, so I
can at least use a search for likely sentence-starts with italic format, to
narrow the search, even if each fix must be done manually.

An odd thing I noticed while fixing this, too: when the Find dialog has
focus, all the comments in the document are not displayed.  But when I click
back into the document and select the text to correct the italicisation of, the
comments are still not displayed: they instantly reappear however when I either
clear the formatting or set the text to italic: not before.  That seems odd, so
I thought I'd mention it.

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--- Comment #6 from Beluga todven...@suomi24.fi ---
(In reply to thackert from comment #3)
 Hello Christian, *,
 thank you for reporting this bug :) As I am only one of the QA guys and not
 able to understand enough from your description, but can reproduce the bug
 as follows:
 
 1. Open a new Writer document
 2. Enter quotetest test/quote, where the second test is set to italic
 3. Ctrl+H
 4. Enter quote([:alnum:])/quote in Search for
 5. Enter quote“$1/quote in Replace with
 6. Click on Other Options and mark Regular expressions
 7. Now click on Replace All
 
 Result: Quotation marks are replaced, the t from the second test is not
 italic any more ...
 Expected result: LO should replace the quotation marks, but not touch the
 formation
 
 I have to say, that I have to copy the quotation mark to Writer, as Writer
 replaced my inserted ones with curly quotation marks ... :(

Reproduced.

Win 7 Pro 64-bit Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 8c3cf9dd48e40604867d3a28bddaccd65142df17
TinderBox: Win-x86@62-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2015-03-27_15:15:18
Locale: fi_FI

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--- Comment #3 from thack...@nexgo.de ---
Hello Christian, *,
thank you for reporting this bug :) As I am only one of the QA guys and not
able to understand enough from your description, but can reproduce the bug as
follows:

1. Open a new Writer document
2. Enter quotetest test/quote, where the second test is set to italic
3. Ctrl+H
4. Enter quote([:alnum:])/quote in Search for
5. Enter quote“$1/quote in Replace with
6. Click on Other Options and mark Regular expressions
7. Now click on Replace All

Result: Quotation marks are replaced, the t from the second test is not
italic any more ...
Expected result: LO should replace the quotation marks, but not touch the
formation

I have to say, that I have to copy the quotation mark to Writer, as Writer
replaced my inserted ones with curly quotation marks ... :(

LO: Version: 4.1.0.1 Build ID: 1b3956717a60d6ac35b133d7b0a0f5eb55e9155 with
Germanophone lang- as well as helppack
OS: Debian Testing AMD64
HTH
Thomas.

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--- Comment #4 from Thomas van der Meulen pje...@hotmail.com ---
Thank you for your bug report, I can reproduce this bug running LibreOffice
Version: 4.1.0.1
Build ID: 1b3956717a60d6ac35b133d7b0a0f5eb55e9155 on Mac osx 10.8.4. 

I just did the steps that Thomas gave me and the T wasn't italic anymore.

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--- Comment #1 from Christian Gagné coldchr...@gmail.com ---
Note: In the previous comment, the reference to the AOO issue number 2997
inadvertently links to an unrelated issue that pertains to another software
module; please disregard the link.

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Added AOO bug URLs to See Also.

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