Bug 182508

Summary:	search & replace doesn't work with vi input mode
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Gabe Yoder <gabe.yoder>
Component:	Vi Input Mode	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	cullmann, douglasjanderson, ehamberg, kdedevel, michal.humpula, null
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	All
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	5.0

Description Gabe Yoder 2009-01-30 23:22:52 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
Compiler:          gcc 4.3.2 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

When using the vi input mode, the search & replace dialog does not function correctly.  The "Next" button causes the cursor to always jump to the first occurrence of the search string in the file.  Similarly, the "Previous" button always jumps to the last occurrence.  The "Replace" button doesn't appear to do anything at all.

Comment 1 Erlend Hamberg 2009-01-30 23:30:01 UTC

thanks for the report!

i'm able to reproduce this and i'll have a look at it.

Comment 2 Simon St James 2012-10-20 14:22:41 UTC

*** Bug 307608 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2012-11-03 12:21:17 UTC

Simon, could you give your patch a new try :=) Seems you are interested in fixing this ;)

Comment 4 Simon St James 2012-11-03 12:36:56 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Simon, could you give your patch a new try :=) Seems you are interested in
> fixing this ;)

Hi Christoph,

I think I'll probably end up taking a competely different tack and implementing an (optional) Vi Command Mode that lives in the Vi status  bar, and leaving the Kate Search/ Replace dialog untouched - there's already quite a lot of Vi mode special cases in there, and even more would need to be required for what I have planned :)

Comment 5 Michal Humpula 2014-01-17 12:57:59 UTC

*** Bug 330071 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Michal Humpula 2014-01-19 10:21:44 UTC

In general the searchbar works in vi-mode, but there is too much of special case handling involved, that some corner cases breaks. The only way to fix it on kde 4 branch is to add even more special case handling to the searchbar code. So as for kde 4 branch, corner cases wont be fixed. In KF5 the searchbar is completely replaced by KateViEmulatedCommandBar, which doesn't exhibit the problems. So closing as fixed in 5.0.