Bug 409589

Summary:	Text containing newline not prefilled using "Search/replace"
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Louis Tim Larsen <louis>
Component:	search	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	minor	CC:	christoph
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	19.04.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Louis Tim Larsen 2019-07-07 16:46:04 UTC

SUMMARY

When selecting a text in Kate containing a newline and choosing to replace the text string it is not prefilled in the "Find:" field whatever "Mode:" is set to "Plain text" or "Regular expression"


STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Selecting a text which includes a newline like:

Line1
Line2ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


- then selecting "Edit -> Replace"

OBSERVED RESULT

The text is not prefilled in the "Find:" field. This is true whatever "Mode:" is set to "Plain text" or "Regular expression"


EXPECTED RESULT

The text in the "Find:" field should be: Line1\nLine2 at least when "Mode:" is set to "Regular expression".


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
KDE Plasma Version:  5.16.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 19.04.2
Qt Version: 5.13.0

Comment 1 Dominik Haumann 2019-07-08 21:31:39 UTC

Hm, I think this is by design. Two reasons:
1. When multiple lines are selected, the "selection only" option is automatically turned on.
2. Assume you select the entire document. You wouldn't want all the document content in one line edit.

To me, this looks like a functions-as-designed.

As workaround, I suggest to Ctrl+C before Ctrl+f, then you just need to Ctrl+v and you have what you want. ...I currently don't know whether newlines are converted into \n characters, though.

Any other thoughts?

Comment 2 Christoph Cullmann 2019-07-13 17:15:28 UTC

Yes, this is per design. I don't think changing this makes sense, sorry, then other users (like me) will be irritated that want to have the auto "selection only" search.