Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Search/Replace in Basic IDE

Hey, don't you love it. I just noticed LO is clever like this. It 
replaced my " " with 66 an 99 quotes like the old days.
steve

On 17/08/11 10:36 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> I think there is a single key to produce " marks but a lot of programs 'cleverly
> just know' whether they are opening or closing.  Of course that makes it tricky
> if you need to use speech marks inside a quoted speech so they generally expect
> you to use the quotes twice.  It all gets a bit confusing and messy until you
> think of how sub-headings work in wiki pages.  ie a single = is a main heading
> and a == is a sub-heading and === is even lower than that
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Johnny Rosenberg<gurus.knugum@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Sent: Wed, 17 August, 2011 10:48:08
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Search/Replace in Basic IDE
>
> 2011/8/17 Steve Edmonds<steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>:
> > On 17/08/11 8:52 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > > 2011/8/17 Steve Edmonds<steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>:
> > > > Hi.
> > > >
> > > > On 2011-08-17 07:32, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > > > > 2011/8/16 NoOp<glgxg@sbcglobal.net>:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On 08/16/2011 12:17 PM, NoOp wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > On 08/16/2011 12:04 PM, NoOp wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On 08/16/2011 11:44 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > 2011/8/16 NoOp<glgxg@sbcglobal.net>:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > On 08/16/2011 07:52 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > When I search for something and leave the Replace With field empty
> > > > > > > > > > > (meaning that I will replace something with nothing), replace will
> > > > > > > > > > > not
> > > > > > > > > > > take place. The only way I could find to do it, was to copy the
> > > > > > > > > > > text
> > > > > > > > > > > to gEdit and quickly do the replace there and then move it back to
> > > > > > > > > > > the
> > > > > > > > > > > Basic IDE again. Is this a bug or is it only me? Can someone
> > > > > > > > > > > confirm
> > > > > > > > > > > this?
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > If it's supposed to work like this, why is that?
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > LibreOffice 3.3.3, Ubuntu 10.10.
> > > > > > > > > > ...
> > > > > > > > > > Works for me. LibreOffice 3.3.3 (US English), Ubuntu 10.10.
> > > > > > > > > And you tried it in the BASIC IDE?
> > > > > > > > ...
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Woops, no I didn't. I'll have to figure out how to use the BASIC IDE
> > > > > > > > first :-)
> > > > > > > Figured it out. No it doesn't work&   does as you describe in 3.3.3.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Now trying in 3.4.2 (Final): Same results.
> > > > > > FWIW: same results in OOo 3.2.1 (Ubuntu go-oo build), OOo 3.3.0
> > > > > > (standard build), and OOo-Dev 3.4.0.
> > > > > Thanks for confirming. Time for a bug report, I presume…!
> > > > What if you try the search for something and the replace with "" (2
> > > > quotes, empty string.) I have a couple of editors needing a quoted empty
> > > > string to replace something with nothing.
> > > > steve
> > > Then it replaces the string with the two ”quotes” (which by the way
> > > are not quotes, but rather Inch-characters or something – the
> > > following character, within the brackets, is a real quote character:
> > > [”] – U+201D).
> > And when I was real young there was a left one and a right one
> > (opening/closing), but that was before keyboards.
> I think it's different in different countries too. I think (but can
> not be sure) that we used the same one on both sides like forever
> here, but I was born as late as 1966, so what do I know…?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

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