[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 38261] Better Find&Replace with regular expressions

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38261

--- Comment #6 from Roman Eisele <bugs at eikota.de> 2012-04-18 02:01:42 PDT ---
Just to show that Timur is not the only user interested in this enhancement
request, I would like to state that this issue is very important for me, too
...

Why? An example. Some months ago, I had to typeset a proceedings volume (a
'Sammelband' in German). I would have used LaTeX for this job, but for some
external reasons I had to use a word processor; so I used Writer. In the long
process of making uniform all chapters (regarding spelling/orthography,
interpunctation, abbreviations, citation, formatting etc.), the present Regular
Expressions feature of the Find & Replace function was very very helpful for
me. Thanks for it!

But some special issues were not handled by the Regular Expressions feature as
it stands; in some cases I remember I had to open the ODT file with BBEdit in
order to search with advanced Regular Expressions for some remaining issues,
and then to fix every occurence in Writer manually. If Writer's Regular
Expressions feature was better, I could have just used Find & Replace to fix
these errors ... This would have saved me some hours of work.

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