The find toolbar has two buttons with arrows next to the entry field, those can be used to step to the next occurrence in the given direction. Clicking a few times on one of them jumps the highlighted part as expected, however, the first click on the other one does seemingly nothing, because it just moves the cursor to the other end of the highlighted part. If one clicks on the two buttons in turns, the selection remains at the same position, and the cursor jumps between the two ends of the highlighted part.
adding Joren as cc...
Yups, confirmed. Thanks for reporting and thanks for the ping Cor. Will have a look. Maybe I can improve it. This is rather an enhancement request then a bug, so I mark it as such.
Taken this on -- initial patch which fixes this is currently in gerrit.
looks fixed to me now :)
Andrzej J.R. Hunt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=c73a65db14f8ee57e382a04b0d38a704c0308458 fdo#65014 Fix backwards/forwards search change of direction. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Andrzej J.R. Hunt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-1": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=660f54347433b05cb2d0ab081ddf6209aff47cd2&h=libreoffice-4-1 fdo#65014 Fix backwards/forwards search change of direction. It will be available in LibreOffice 4.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
*** Bug 65552 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***