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

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

--- Comment #14 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz at technion.ac.il> ---
Author of dupe bug 137219 here...

I believe this bug mixes up several issues - because the MS Word feature it
refers to mixes up these issues:

1. The ability to search for multi-line / multi-paragraph patterns
2. The ability to search for non-printing characters which relate to LO
document structure, e.g. LF, CR, PS (see comment #5) and maybe others.
3. The UI for exposing these abilities, and whether it needs to be similar to
MS-Word's in referring to "low-level" concepts like LF and CR and their effect,
or only to "high-level" concepts like lines and paragraphs.
4. The ability to search for characters which don't relate to document
structure, but which can't easily be entered using the keyboard, like
non-breaking space and tab, or non-printing characters such as ZWJ, RLM, LRM
and so on.

I therefore suggest that these issues be split up into separate bugs with
appropriate dependencies/relations between them.

Why?

* NBSP and tab searching are really just a UI shortcoming, they can be searched
even now if you paste these characters from elsewhere and there's no reason to
hold that up for the other, deeper, more complex issues.
* Part of what can be / needs to be done is allowing for regular expressions
like "foo\n.*bar" to work in some reasonable way. That can be done without
deciding whether LFs/CRs are exposed to the user or not.


I would like to ask for the CC list members' opinions on this suggestion.

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