[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 31480] Find/replace special characters easily

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31480

David Nelson <commerce at traduction.biz> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from David Nelson <commerce at traduction.biz> 2010-11-09 03:09:26 PST ---
Hi Tor, 

Thank you for your comments. I think you've indeed understood what I was on
about, but:

I understand what you're talking about as regards LibO/OOo's internal storage.

However, that is invisible to the end user.

I, the dumb end user, pressed the carriage return key while typing. I don't
care how the software stores it. But I want to be able to search for that
carriage return after.

Same thing when I press Shift-Enter (a "new line" or "soft return"). I want to
be able to find those "new line" "characters" after.

Same thing for tab "characters". Etc.

Since I made those keystrokes and they have a result on-screen, they are
obviously being stored in some form or other. Otherwise, next time I open it,
my doc would look different from the way it looked when I typed it, no? ;-)

I sometimes need to search for the "new line" characters and replace them with
a "carriage return" and thus create new paragpaphs, etc. Or I need to search
for 8 space characters and replace them with a "tab mark" instead.

In MS Office, I have a dropdown list of such "special characters" and it makes
life very simple to use them in find/replaces.

Could we get that in LibO, too, please?

Thanks if so. ;-)

Please let me know if I haven't explained clearly. :-)

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