Searching for selected text does not work with control characters

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There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

Please leave references to upstream OpenOffice.org bugs in place to allow cross pollination.

I checked using LibreOffice 3.2.2.2 on a Mac and this bug is present in LibreOffice as well.

Michael Nagel, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect -p libreoffice 311762

Does not work as expected:
nailor@needle:~1$ apport-collect -p libreoffice 311762
Package libreoffice not installed and no hook available, ignoring

Behavior of CTRL-F changed as well in the meantime...
It still does not work properly, but I will close this bug...

Michael Nagel, the reason apport-collect did not work is because you literally do not have the package libreoffice installed, but you do have the components of libreoffice (ex. libreoffice-writer). Please perform the following via the Terminal:
 sudo apt-get -y install libreoffice && apport-collect -p libreoffice 311762

apport information

apport information

Michael Nagel, thank you for apport-collect'ing.

Regarding your bug description:

"if you have text selected and hit CTRL+F that text is inserted into the search field.
this does not work if the text contains control characters like newline, newparagraph or tabulators.
desired behaviour: it should work then, too."

The phenomenon of selecting text, hitting CTRL+F, and having it inserted into the search field is unverifiable in LibreOffice.

Could you please post a recording of this via recordmydesktop?

as mentioned above, behavior of CTRL-F has been redefined in the meantime.
similar behavior can be reproduced by using CTRL-H now.

create a new document:
- type letter a
- type letter b
- hit tabulator key
- type letter c
- type letter d

now, if you select "ab" with the mouse and hit CTRL-H "ab" is inserted into the "search for" field. pressing "find" finds it.
if you however select with the mouse "b c" then "b c" is inserted in the "search for" field and nothing is found.

Michael Nagel, regarding your comments https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/311762/comments/9 :

>"as mentioned above, behavior of CTRL-F has been redefined in the meantime."

The behavior of CTRL+F being redefined was not mentioned above.

>"similar behavior can be reproduced by using CTRL-H now.

create a new document:
- type letter a
- type letter b
- hit tabulator key
- type letter c
- type letter d

now, if you select "ab" with the mouse and hit CTRL-H "ab" is inserted into the "search for" field. pressing "find" finds it.
if you however select with the mouse "b c" then "b c" is inserted in the "search for" field and nothing is found."

The problem is still not reproducible. Could you please provide a recording of the problem as requested in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/311762/comments/8 ?

I just tried to do a recording, but due to Bug #1005914 i cannot create a useful record (only the background shows).

Michael Nagel, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/311762/comments/8 did not ask you to use gnome-screenshot. Instead, it requested you use the package:
recordmydesktop

It creates a video of my desktop background.

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

This bug has sat incomplete for 6 months. Marking invalid.