Re: [libreoffice-users] Select text does not always work

On Mar 1, 2011, at 19:54 , MR ZenWiz wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:05 AM, James Wilde
> <james.wilde@sunde-wilde.com> wrote:
> > The other oddity I noticed, which, again, is not something you would use every day, involves 
> > text which is apparently selected, but is actually not.  And in this case it's probably worth 
> > mentioning that I'm using 3.3.1 on a Mac running OSX 10.6.6.
> >
> > I was going through a long document correcting quotation marks.  The document contained a mixed 
> > bag of single and double quotation marks, and some were of the typewriter form (same at opening 
> > and closing) and some were of the kind that I learned to call 66's and 99's, which have a 
> > distinctive comma form.  Some of these were 6's and 9's of course, if they were single quotation 
> > marks.
> >
> > I was replacing typewriter double quotes around direct speech with single 6's and 9's, thus:
> >
> > "What do you mean by "good"?" asked John would become "What do yo mean by 6good9?" asked John.  
> > (I'm typing text only, so I can't actually type curved quotes without going to html)
> >
> > I had a search and replace window open with which I searched for opening double quotes by 
> > clicking on find until I came to the opening quotes of "good" in the sample above, when I 
> > clicked on replace to replace it with a single 6 quote.  When one does this, the search 
> > automatically goes on to find the next example of a double quote, and in this case would hop to 
> > the end of "good" and select the second quotation marks.  To handle this, I had a copy of the 
> > character table open, with the single 9 quote selected.  When I pressed "Insert", nothing 
> > happened.  No replace, no insert.  Not until I physically reselected the already selected double 
> > typewriter quote.
> >
> > Not world-shattering, but perhaps something that needs an explanation.  Or a fix.
>
> I'm not sure you can do that in the context of a running find/replace
> command - it has different operational rules than just straight
> insertion, even over selected text.
>
> What you can do for situations like this (although I usually convert
> the quotes the other way around - from 66/99 back to straight quotes)
> is select and copy the replacement pattern you want to use outside the
> running f/r, then when you hit the opening quote, just replace it, but
> when you hit the closing quote, use paste (^V or <insert>) to drop the
> previously selected and copied (i.e., clipboard) closing quote.  That
> should work.

Thanks, that sounds like a good solution.

//James
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