Bug 137218 - UI: When pressing Ctrl+F and typing, previous search term should be replaced
Summary: UI: When pressing Ctrl+F and typing, previous search term should be replaced
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 136161
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
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7.0.0.2 rc
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2020-10-03 10:53 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2020-10-03 22:55 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2020-10-03 10:53:34 UTC
When I'm working with Calc using the keyboard, I often want to find some text in my sheet. So, I press Ctrl+F, type in a search term, and press Enter to find it

... but that doesn't work!

You see, if you've already searched for something, pressing Ctrl+F moves focus to the search bar, and places the cursor after the previous search term - so you are _appending_ to it. That does not make sense - it is very rarely what the user wants to do.

Instead, it should be the case that Ctrl+F, then typing, replaces the search term. The easiest way to achieve this is having Ctrl+F select the previous search term.

This is not a new issue, I believe - it probably goes way back. Still, my build info:

Version: 7.0.0.3
Build ID: 8061b3e9204bef6b321a21033174034a5e2ea88e
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.2; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: he-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Eyal Rozenberg 2020-10-03 10:54:19 UTC
I think this also happens in Impress. Perhaps elsewhere as well.
Comment 2 BogdanB 2020-10-03 18:51:54 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 136161 ***
Comment 3 Dan Dascalescu 2020-10-03 22:55:53 UTC
Yeah, this was a regression. I also ran into it.