[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 144723] regular expression in find and replace is case insensitive

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144723

--- Comment #14 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to johnks from comment #13)

You are shifting the goalposts - for the second time ;)

It absolutely does not matter what kwrite decides its defaults. You may check
that different applications have different defaults (and even different sets of
supported flags) in them. You may e.g. look at comment 10, and look at the *two
web services that you suggested for testing*, to see that the two services have
different default values for "multiline" flag. This shows that it's up to the
software what to have as its default value for the mode.

gedit and VSCode have both "case insensitive" by default; I didn't check
notepad++ in that regard (I don't want to reset its settings). But even if they
all had case-sensitive by default, it wouldn't change anything. LibreOffice is
a separate application; and it is up to LibreOffice to decide which mode is
most reasonable for majority of *its* users.

Anyway, *given that it is fine to control the flag using the checkbox* (as we
already agreed), it is absolutely file to *not* change the checkbox state when
*another* checkbox changes (they are *independent*). And further, given that
the *default* mode is case-insensitive plain search, it is absolutely
reasonable that when you check regular expressions from that default mode, case
sensitivity is not enabled. Doing otherwise would be unexpected and wrong
(creating hidden unobvious relations between settings).

The only thing that actually needs fixing is retaining "case sensitivity" flag
across sessions - similar to bug 112271. But that is different, and needs an
own report (if yet absent) - because this one is created initially with wrong
premises, has already three different ideas, and would already be
confusing/unmanageable if converted to "let's keep the value of the checkbox
across sessions".

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