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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001752 | Scribus | Story Editor / Text Frames | public | 2005-03-03 06:32 | 2022-01-29 22:33 |
| Reporter | jo-hannes | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | assigned | Resolution | open | ||
| Target Version | 1.6 milestone | ||||
| Summary | 0001752: Use selected text in SE search/replace as the basis for the search field | ||||
| Description | if any text is selected in the story editor and the function search/replace is called, take that selected text as the basis for the search field | ||||
| Tags | search, story editor, text frames, usability, workflow | ||||
| Patch | No | ||||
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I think searches and substitutions should allow the user to choose if he wants them to be global, i.e. they affect all the text frames of the document or of the page. This is really useful to replace special characters like spaces next to quotes to non-break-spaces, or oe to œ. This is not so complex to implement, do it ? ;-) |
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milan: While global S&R would be useful, you can do a lot of that at text import time using the get text plugin. You can even use regular expressions for more complex replacement tasks if you need to. |
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Re the use of text selection, I agree that'd be very useful. So would "search only this frame" vs "search all frames" when not in story editor. It would be very important to have a GUI control for: Search: - The current selection - The current frame - The whole document (with "the current selection" on by default if there is a selection, and greyed out if there is not). |
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Hmm... I think it might be possible to do this, and global S&R, in Python. |
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Global S&R would make me happy. Sometimes you need to change something _after_ you have imported all texts. In my case I needed to change the model number of a device. Considering the document was a 100-page manual of the same device, there were lots of instances. Using a text editor does the trick, but is somewhat cumbersome. I wouldn't mind if global S&R was a plugin, script or wild magic, as long as it is there :) |
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Agree we need a better S/R capability. To [Current frame] option we could add [Current linked frames] to Craig Ringer's options. Also, a Super Search and Replace would allow to look for many strings "at once". Or a table of automatic substitution, à la Short Words. Readily editable, handy. |
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This will be helped with the new text system in 1.3.4+ that will store the text for a text chain in one data structure rather than per frame. |
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And, I might add, if I search for a phrase in the text and find it, then close the search box, I will be brought back to the very beginning of that text, not even is the found text marked (as I think it should be). I have *almost* as much difficulty finding the occurence now as I had before the search :-( IMHO: The text ought to be editable when the search box is open also. And the program ought to remember my position when I select something somewhere. |
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addition: S&R doesn't find non-printing characters (spaces, tabs, new lines, etc). |
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See also 0005189 |
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Reworded summary lowered priority to normal since it's been open for years |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2005-03-03 06:32 | jo-hannes | New Issue | |
| 2005-03-05 15:29 | milan | Note Added: 0003878 | |
| 2005-03-05 21:07 |
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Note Added: 0003879 | |
| 2005-05-25 05:03 |
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Note Added: 0004770 | |
| 2005-05-25 08:52 |
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Note Added: 0004771 | |
| 2005-06-15 11:51 |
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Relationship added | related to 0002097 |
| 2005-06-15 11:51 |
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Status | new => acknowledged |
| 2005-06-15 11:52 |
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Relationship deleted | related to 0002097 |
| 2006-02-21 13:57 | lemmit | Note Added: 0008847 | |
| 2006-02-21 14:37 | louisdesjardins | Note Added: 0008848 | |
| 2006-02-21 15:03 | cbradney | Note Added: 0008851 | |
| 2006-04-14 11:21 | mhanski | Relationship added | related to 0002332 |
| 2006-08-31 20:10 | axelb | Note Added: 0012387 | |
| 2006-08-31 20:13 | axelb | Note Edited: 0012387 | |
| 2006-09-01 01:03 | jegHegy | Note Added: 0012391 | |
| 2007-01-18 10:28 | axelb | Note Edited: 0012387 | |
| 2007-01-18 10:29 | axelb | Note Added: 0014856 | |
| 2012-01-06 08:45 | StefanM | Tag Attached: text frames | |
| 2012-01-06 08:46 | StefanM | Tag Attached: story editor | |
| 2012-01-06 08:47 | StefanM | Tag Attached: usability | |
| 2014-10-07 23:47 | Kunda | Relationship added | child of 0012755 |
| 2014-11-06 19:29 | Kunda | Tag Attached: MABs | |
| 2014-12-24 16:45 | JLuc | Patch | => No |
| 2014-12-24 16:45 | JLuc | Priority | normal => urgent |
| 2014-12-24 16:45 | JLuc | Severity | feature => major |
| 2015-09-17 20:08 | Kunda | Category | Story Editor / Text Frames => Story Ed/Txt Frames |
| 2015-09-17 20:12 | Kunda | Category | Story Ed/Txt Frames => Story Editor / Text Frames |
| 2015-09-25 18:56 | Kunda | Note Added: 0036375 | |
| 2015-09-25 18:56 | Kunda | Priority | urgent => normal |
| 2015-09-25 18:56 | Kunda | Summary | search & replace improvement => Use selected text in SE search/replace as the basis for the search field |
| 2015-09-25 18:56 | Kunda | Note Edited: 0014856 | |
| 2015-12-10 08:59 | JLuc | Tag Detached: MABs | |
| 2015-12-10 15:52 | Kunda | Relationship added | related to 0005189 |
| 2016-04-12 14:47 | Kunda | Tag Attached: workflow | |
| 2016-04-12 14:48 | Kunda | Tag Attached: search | |
| 2019-12-17 08:58 | ale | Assigned To | => ale |
| 2019-12-17 08:58 | ale | Status | acknowledged => assigned |
| 2019-12-17 08:58 | ale | Summary | Use selected text in SE search/replace as the basis for the search field => Use selected text in SE search/replace as the basis for the search field |
| 2022-01-29 21:42 | cbradney | Target Version | => 1.6 milestone |
| 2022-01-29 22:33 | JLuc | Assigned To | ale => |
