Bug 439505

Summary: Search and replace gets confused, if you have more than one unsaved document open
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: Buovjaga <ilmari.lauhakangas>
Component: searchAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: kare.sars, kde.podagric, waqar.17a
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 21.04.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Buovjaga 2021-07-05 08:04:38 UTC 
1. In an unsaved document, try to find & replace some text

This has been going on for several months at least. I hit the bug most of the time, but sometimes it works fine. The reliable cure seems to be to save the document.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.22.2
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.83.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Comment 1 Podagric 2021-07-05 20:30:19 UTC 
works well for me
Kate 21.04.02
Comment 2 Kåre Särs 2021-07-07 14:03:35 UTC 
I cannot reproduce the search problem, but I know there is an issue with highlights and replace, if you have two unsaved documents.... In that situation the Search plugin has a hard time knowing which file is which.

Then if you have selected search place to be in project-files or folder, this unsaved file does not belong to any of them...
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2021-07-07 14:19:01 UTC 
(In reply to Kåre Särs from comment #2)
> I cannot reproduce the search problem, but I know there is an issue with
> highlights and replace, if you have two unsaved documents.... In that
> situation the Search plugin has a hard time knowing which file is which.
> 
> Then if you have selected search place to be in project-files or folder,
> this unsaved file does not belong to any of them...

Aah, that might indeed be the reliable repro case. I tried it just now and it found and replaced in the unsaved doc that was not in focus. Target was "current file".

I could not find an existing report.
Comment 4 Waqar Ahmed 2022-01-10 21:19:08 UTC 
Fixed in master now