Bug 95708

Summary:	preserve case in find&replace
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Manuel Lopez-Ibanez <lopezibanez>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor	CC:	vsfoote
Priority:	medium
Version:	Inherited From OOo
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38261
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Description Manuel Lopez-Ibanez 2015-11-09 17:04:44 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
Build Identifier: LibreOffice 4.2.8.2

When replacing "word" by "text" without "Match case" both word and Word will be replaced by "text". However, I would expect that "word" is replaced by "text" and "Word" by "Text" (and "WORD" by "TEXT").

Reproducible: Always




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Locale: en-US
Module: TextDocument
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OS: Linux (All)
OS is 64bit: no


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Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2015-11-09 23:40:23 UTC

Why would you *expect* that?  The match is the found text--not the replaced text.

If you need more granularity--run more finds/replaces

If you're suggesting this as an enhancement--that is a bucket load of work for a very corner case.  Wontfix.

Comment 2 Timur 2015-11-10 11:36:55 UTC

I won't reopen but I don't agree with WontFix. 
That's "Preserve capitalization" option from Alternative Find & Replace extension.

Comment 3 Manuel Lopez-Ibanez 2015-11-10 11:51:35 UTC

(In reply to Timur from comment #2)
> I won't reopen but I don't agree with WontFix. 
> That's "Preserve capitalization" option from Alternative Find & Replace
> extension.

Thanks for the pointer. Another pointer is that Emacs and Eclipse can do this. Of course, I understand that it may be too much work for little benefit. I also understand that if it were truly important for LO users, somebody (or me) would have already implemented it.

The corresponding AOO bug is https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=17188

I'd prefer to close this as a duplicate of bug 38261 (although a regex solution for this seems overkill to me, but I'll be happy with what I can get), to keep track of the interest on this and the potential pool of developers, testers, backers of this feature.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 38261 ***