[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 142219] find-next and find-backwards not consistent

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142219

--- Comment #2 from birnbach at posteo.de <birnbach at posteo.de> ---
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demo text with open search field

A screencast will not show keyboard presses, which are essential here. However,
I enclose a screenshot and hope this explanation will help:

In the screenshot, the search field is open (lower left corner, with text
'foo') and the cursor is in it. Under these conditions search works as
expected: CTRL-G searches forward, CTRL-SHIFT-G backwards.

Now, if the cursor is placed into the document or the search field is closed
(e.g. by pressing ESC), CTRL-SHIFT-G will stop doing anything useful. CTRL-G
will repeat the last search from back when the cursor was in the search field.
As this may have been a forward or a backward search, CTRL-G may or may not
invert its behaviour. 

It seems to me that CTRL-G should //always// perform a forward search and
CTRL-SHIFT-G //always// a backward search with the last search string. The
present behaviour stands in contrast to what a user is accustomed to from other
applications.

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