Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014, Tom Davies wrote:

> Hi :)
> Hmm, sadly Writer doesn't seem to do quite the same thing as GEdit.
>
> With GEdit i could;
> 1.  select all 10 files,
> 2.  right-click to open in GEdit,
> 3.  do the search in any of the documents
> 4.  Ctrl z to close that document and arrive in the next automatically
> 5.  when i open the find dialogue it already has the search criteria i used
> in the last document
>
> Sadly with Writer i'd have to copy&paste the criteria each time.  I guess
> that's another argument in favour of tabbed UI
> Regards from
> Tom :)

I am sure I'm not quite following what is ultimately wanted but about 
opening multiple copies, but suppose I have a directory containing the 
desired files, say, 1.doc, 2.doc, Another.doc; is there a verbot 
against going into the directory and doing

soffice *.doc

at the commandline? or does this not work?

but pardon and ignore me if I'm way off-target.

F.

 > >
> On 30 August 2014 12:01, Maurice <maurice@bcs.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:35:05 +1200, Steve Edmonds wrote:
> >
> > > There could be a feature request. In the existing find and replace
> > > dialogue to have an option "All open documents".
> >
> >   Mmm. Will take a look at how to make such a request.
> >
> > > You need only have the documents opened in LO and working on multiple
> > > documents you can search and replace them as one.
> >
> >   Well, if, say, there are 10 documents in the list to be searched, how
> > would one open all 10 conveniently?
> >
> > --
> > /\/\aurice

--
Felmon Davis

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.  -- 
Horace

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