Select a text in Writer, press Ctrl F: the find bar is empty. The same operation with Ctrl Alt F automatically inserts into the search field.
RC2 is bit by bit identical with release version, so separate items in the version picker are useless. Changes have been discussed with Michael Meeks.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=2b92546ee3aa3d56f64c68ff3e8e782b3c56dba4 fdo#49750 findbar: try to fill empty textfield with selected text This commit partially fixed the problem. However, I think we should mimic the behaviour of Firefox's Find bar. 1. Select text in the document when Find bar is visible and text box is empty. Press Ctrl+F. Expected result: Text box on Find bar contains the selected text. Note: It works as expected in master. 2. Select text in the document when Find bar is not visible. Press Ctrl+F. Expected result: Find bar appears with the selected text 3. Select text in the document when Findbar is visible and text box is not empty. Press Ctrl+F. Expected result: Text box on Find bar contains the selected text, not the previous content.
Zolnai Tamas committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=31b18677987eb82169730750670faf8409206e8c fdo#37791 Insert selected text to Findbar by Ctrl F
Zolnai Tamas committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-6": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=b68ad0ba9ceb8bdfc9fc3a3211c254824d38c267&g=libreoffice-3-6 fdo#37791 Insert selected text to Findbar by Ctrl F It will be available in LibreOffice 3.6.1.
*** Bug 49706 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Verified with 4.0.0.beta1 on XP SP3. Selection is copied in find bar by Ctrl+F. Ok.