Bug 407312

Summary:	F3 Find Next sometimes skips the next instance of the search string.
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Ron Cemer <ron>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	justin.zobel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Ron Cemer 2019-05-07 19:00:30 UTC

SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Create a new document, enter the following text:
test

hello  hello  hello
2. Press Ctrl+F to search; enter "hello" (no quotes).  The first "hello" is highlighted.
3. Press Esc to exit search mode.
4. Press Ctrl+Home to go to the beginning of the document.
5. Press F3 to find next.
6. Repeat steps 2-5 until the bug occurs.

OBSERVED RESULT

Sometimes, F3 skips the very next instance of "hello" and goes to the second-next instance.

EXPECTED RESULT

F3 should always go to the very next instance of the search string, after the cursor.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64

This bug has been around for several years.  I figured someone would have reported it and it would have been fixed by now.  If it has been fixed, please push the new version to Canonical so it gets pushed out to all of the Ubutu 18.04 users.  Thanks!

Comment 1 Dominik Haumann 2019-05-11 05:10:20 UTC

Which search mode do you use? Just plain text, or regular expressions or similar?

Imo, we should make a unit test out of this.

Comment 2 Ron Cemer 2019-05-11 17:00:54 UTC

I'm using plain text search mode.

Comment 3 Justin Zobel 2020-10-29 10:36:31 UTC

Ron I've just tried to reproduce this issue and ran the search approximately 15 times.

Can you please confirm if this is still occurring for you?

Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2020-11-13 04:33:46 UTC

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Comment 5 Bug Janitor Service 2020-11-28 04:34:03 UTC

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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