[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 154831] Replace string is empty

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154831

--- Comment #4 from maison <bugzilla at kgb.ovh> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> I wonder what workflow requires to repeat search / replace operations.
> Neither it's a "quirkiness" to me (haven't checked Microsoft apps). Do you
> have a real life example to support the enhancement need?

Or see it in the opposite way, what workflow example there is where you want to
search for the same thing, but this time delete your text rather than replace
it with what was previously set? Deleting your search text (which happens when
you don’t have a replacement text set) is a very strong assumption, which is
very unlikely that it is what the user wants the second time.
Or why set the search text again & all the other options in the popup window,
but not the replace text?

It makes no sense to me (and indeed Microsoft Office users are not used to
having some of their setting disappear). Also let’s speak about several
software as diverse as advanced text editors, Calibre, Directory Opus, Abbyy
FineReader… I can hardly find something that deletes half of the Search &
Replace settings.

Anyway as an easy to understand workflow, you search and replace a few things,
then you realise that you need more attention for this place, so you close the
window to work on it properly, then you want to resume your search, and now you
have to press Tab Tab Tab Tab Tab… (don’t press too automatically or you have
to start over!)

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