Bug 136673

Summary:	The find field adds text on each new search
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	saverio.pub2
Component:	LibreOffice	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor	CC:	buzea.bogdan
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0.1.2 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description saverio.pub2 2020-09-11 17:11:46 UTC

The find field (Ctrl+F) adds text on each new search.

On GUI applications, conventionally, each new find shows the previous search pattern, entirely selected. The reason is that, if the user types something new, the old pattern is automatically replaced; if they press enter instead, the old pattern is used.

This was also Libreoffice's behavior, before v7.

Now, instead, when the find field is opened, the previous pattern is not highlighted, so if the user types something new, it's prefixed to the old one.

This is very confusing, and it seems to me that it's a bug introduced, rather than intentional design.

Searching a new pattern now requires the user to type `Ctrl+A` after `Ctrl+F`, which is hard to remember, since the previous behavior is the convention in all GUI applications.

Comment 1 BogdanB 2020-09-11 19:32:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 136269 ***

Comment 2 BogdanB 2020-09-11 19:32:46 UTC

Thanks for reporting, This bug was already solved.
Will be released very soon in a new version.

Comment 3 BogdanB 2020-09-11 19:33:33 UTC

Wait for the versions: 7.1.0 or 7.0.2 to be released.