Bug 266535

The affected Okular version reports itself as 0.11.2, but is a recent SVN checkout of trunk.

Secondly, let me preface this by saying that '*' refers to a literal, single asterisk character throughout this report, not to a matching/globbing expression.

The behavior I'm seeing happens while searching for '*' in a PDF document. The document is a book, written in English, containing both regular prose writing and code listings written in Python. Embedded both in the regular English prose writing and the code listings are many occurences of '**' (i.e. a pair of adjacent asterisk characters, the power operator in Python), sometimes several per page, and on many pages.

Using Okular's search feature (accessed by Ctrl+F) to search for '*' in this book always only marks and jumps to the first '*' in any occurence of '**'.

In other words, a search for '*' may yield the following result, where <> are used to denote the yellow (in the default color scheme, at any rate) marking Okular paints:

[...] <*>* [...]

Clicking "Next" on the search bar now will not produce the expected result of marking the second '*' in the same occurence of '**':

[...] *<*> [...]

Rather, it will jump to the next occurence of a single asterisk or the first asterisk in a pair of asterisks elsewhere in the text.

I initially assumed there may be some magic there that intentionally produces this behavior if the subject of a search is found several times adjacent to each other, but Pino Toscano has indicated this is not the case, so this is likely a bug.