[Bug 165956] Find toolbar missing a Regular Expression toggle button

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165956

--- Comment #5 from V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> ---
The search "engine" for Find bar (including Sidebar 'Repeat search' mode) and
the Find & Replace dialog follow different implementations.

The "cross over" of search attributes bleeding between has been a long running
nuisance that we've been able to reduce.

Every "feature" we add to the Quick Find Search has to be maintained relative
to the Find & Replace instance--with user experience impacts considered for
both.

Decisions have consistently been to keep F&R features and configurations
isolated from the QFS, that doesn't change. But legitimately we ask why regex
based search would be necessary to implement on the QFS--when it is already
implemented as a selectable option on the more robust F&R dialog?

The QFS toolbar does not need the added complexity, and it is not worth the dev
effort, UX impact, and maintenance requirements to add the feature.

Still a -1, and => WF

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