Bug 161029 - Special Find&Replace presets with regular expression
Summary: Special Find&Replace presets with regular expression
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 139585
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: 38261
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Reported: 2024-05-10 13:36 UTC by Olivier Hallot
Modified: 2025-03-27 22:33 UTC (History)
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Screenshot MSO (44.00 KB, image/png)
2024-05-31 07:42 UTC, Heiko Tietze
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Description Olivier Hallot 2024-05-10 13:36:07 UTC
Seen in telegram groups for pt-BR.

Have a set of predefined (regex) find & replace available in the F&R dialog.

For example
- Remove white space at end of line
- Remove end of line (join lines)
- other common situations for people that need to reformat content.
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2024-05-10 13:46:00 UTC
+1 

But, little room on the Full F&R dialog so would need to provide a pop-out selector button like checkbox dialog for 'Attributes', but applicable only to the 'regex Replacements'.
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2024-05-10 14:09:43 UTC
Perhaps extension material?
Comment 3 Olivier Hallot 2024-05-10 14:19:47 UTC
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #2)
> Perhaps extension material?

There is an regex F&R extension at 

https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/70066

However, this extension is far to complicated for "Joe User" ( =average user) and requires knowledge in regex which is the issue we want to hide here.
Comment 4 Timur 2024-05-30 13:59:45 UTC
Seems dupe to me, if not please explain.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 38261 ***
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2024-05-31 07:42:09 UTC
Created attachment 194474 [details]
Screenshot MSO

We discussed the topic in the design meeting. Those examples as provided by MSO are nice for recurring tasks and basic users. RegEx is however a power function for expert users, suited for complex tasks. Therefore we suggest to add a couple of examples (eg. find double paragraph breaks) in the documentation but not to the UI.
Comment 6 Heiko Tietze 2024-05-31 07:43:27 UTC
Keeping this a duplicate though.
Comment 7 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-03-27 22:33:29 UTC
This was not a bug about documentation, and I oppose on principle the recategorization of bugs regarding the UI to documentation. Documentation improvements are their own thing.

Moreover, after reading most of the comments on bug 38261 and learning of the state of AF&R, I believe this is more of a dupe of bug 139585.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 139585 ***