AFAIK ^ has never worked correctly. I doubt anyone intentionally made Open Office regular expressions incompatible with industry practice, so I think this is a bug, not a missing feature. -Jim
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to openoffice.org in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465309 Title: [Upstream] Regular Expression Search for circumflex by itself does not find beginning of a paragraph Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: Confirmed Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: New Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: openoffice.org 1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release: 12.04 2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-calc libreoffice-calc: Installed: 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages 3) What is expected to happen in Writer, Calc, or the Macro Editor is when one opens the Find & Replace window, with Regular Expression checkbox checked, in the Search for drop down put a circumflex in, and the beginning of every paragraph is found. Consulting the LO Wiki and built-in LO help, it is implied that using a circumflex by itself in the find field should match the beginning of a paragraph: http://help.libreoffice.org/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions 4) What happens instead is nothing is found. WORKAROUND: Notepad++ 6.1.2: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.1.2.html via WINE. apt-cache policy wine1.5 wine1.5: Installed: 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17 Candidate: 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17 Version table: *** 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Oct 30 11:36:03 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-4ubuntu2 [modified: var/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/program/services.rdb] ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.41-generic SourcePackage: openoffice.org Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/465309/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
