• Adalbert Hanßen Nov 3, 2020, 10:55 AM (2 years ago)

  There are several bugs when applying AltSearch within a table. It depends if the selection spans more than one cell or less. If I want to replace e.g. \p by \n within a selection which extends beyond a single cell, I get the error message
  
  It is impossible to find text in this object.
  
  Which is definitely not true: I see text in my selection.
  
  Another time aplying it within a table I first got a warning: "CursorInit: Unsupported selection". Why this and how to overcome it?
  
  If I continued to apply a search and replace operation (e.g. replace \s by a normal space), I get the error message
  
  "Bt_run: Error with opening file: xxx l. 289: Object variable not set"
  
  (where xxx is the path to AltSearchScript.txt. By the way: This file contains the stored batch scripts and therefore interesting examples and suggestions for scripts that could be used in conjunction with AltSearch. Perhaps you can learn from them what the missing description of the dialect of regular expressions leaves open.)

• Keith Oct 31, 2020, 7:57 PM (2 years ago)

  Cannot downloand 1.4.2 getting this message: Add Extension(s):
  C:\Users\***\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\uno_packages\cache\uno_packages\lu126411ckee.tmp_\altsearch.oxt does not exist

• Adalbert Hanßen Oct 31, 2020, 12:20 PM (2 years ago)

  How exactly can I replace all Character styles of one type to another one? I can search for all occurrences of say [:::CharStyleName=Example::] but when using the same pattern, say [:::CharStyleName=Code::], just this text is pasted rather than the other character style is applied. Some more documentation would be very helpful at this place.

  • Adalbert Hanßen Dec 2, 2020, 12:18 PM (2 years ago)

    In order to replace all uses of character style Example by another character style, enter [:::CharStyleName=Example::] to the search field but leave the replacement field empty. Then use find all. Then all occurrences of the searched-for character style are marked and these (possibly many) found places can be assigned some other defined character style by double clicking on the wanted character style in the F11 dialogue box (under character styles).

• Keith Oct 26, 2020, 8:33 PM (2 years ago)

  \n is worthless when looking for Carriage Return.
  There is no way to search and replace for Carriage Return.
  All other functions are already available as default in LibreOffice.
  Could you please provide a version that can actually search for carriage return?

  • Adalbert Hanßen Oct 26, 2020, 9:49 PM (2 years ago)

    Try it with \p (paragraph mark). \n is the forced linefeed (which probably has not a vertical above or below spacing associated with it.

• Adalbert Hanßen Oct 26, 2020, 5:39 PM (2 years ago)

  There is an error if I want to simultaneously remove any blancs at the end of a line and change \p to \n by using \s*\p: In general * matches zero to any number of matches. This one fails, if there is no blank space before a paragraph mark! Nevertheless, AltSearch is very useful. But the regular expression syntax should be described more!
  
  By the way, your rating should indicate if a higher number indicates better or not so good. Grades in school follow different schemes in different countries, so this is not obvious.

• Élisson Góis Gallas Oct 21, 2020, 8:31 PM (2 years ago)

  All I could want in a search tool. How can I help you translate it to Portuguese?

  • Adalbert Hanßen Oct 26, 2020, 10:00 PM (2 years ago)

    Do it with Copy/paste starting with any language version. There is an excellent online translator. If you are a native speaker of the target language, you can easily correct the translation you receive so that it is really understandable (if the source text was understandable in the foreign language). In the case of individual words whose translation seems questionable, you can then click on these words in the target language and you will be presented with a list of further options. If you select one of them with the mouse, the translation of the text in the left-hand field will continue with this selection.
    
    You can find this online translator at https://www.deepl.com/de/translator
    
    Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

  • Adalbert Hanßen Oct 26, 2020, 9:58 PM (2 years ago)

    Es gibt einen exzellenten Onlineübersetzer. Wenn man in der Zielsprache Muttersprachler ist, kann man die da erhaltene Übersetzung leicht so korrigieren, daß sie wirklich gut veständlich ist (falls der Ausgangstext in der fremden Sprache vernündtig war). Bei einzelnen Worten, deren Übersetzung einem fragwürdig erscheint, kann man dann in der Zielsprache auf diese Wörter klicken und bekommt dann eine Liste weiterer Wahhlmöglichkeiten. Wenn man davon eine mit der Maus auswählt, wird die Übersetzung des Texts im linken Feld damit fortgesetzt.
    
    Diesen Onlineübersetzer findet man bei https://www.deepl.com/de/translator

  • Adalbert Hanßen Oct 26, 2020, 9:54 PM (2 years ago)

    Há um excelente tradutor em linha. Se for um falante nativo da língua de destino, pode facilmente corrigir a tradução que recebe para que esta seja realmente compreensível (se o texto original fosse compreensível na língua estrangeira). Se a tradução de uma palavra for questionável, pode clicar sobre ela na língua de destino e obter uma lista de outras opções. Se seleccionar um deles com o rato, a tradução do texto no campo da esquerda será continuada.
    
    Pode encontrar este tradutor em linha em https://www.deepl.com/de/translator
    
    Traduzido com a versão gratuita do tradutor - www.DeepL.com/Translator

• Ian Oct 17, 2020, 5:26 PM (2 years ago)

  Downloaded v.1.4.2 just now, no difficulties. v.1.3.2 which appears to be the version you attempted is an old version.
  To remove carraige returns from a document you can simply use the built in search and replace. Simply choose 'use regular expressions' and enter '\r\n' in find with nothing in the replace box. \r = carraige return. \n = new line. It can be quite useful to learn regular expressions.

• Ruth Werner Oct 15, 2020, 11:26 PM (2 years ago)

  I got this message when attempting to download the altsearch extension...
  "this type of file can harm your computer. Do you want to keep 6cbfbb88_altsearch...oxt anyway?
  Can you explain this and tell me if it's a legitimate concern? I really want to be able to remove carriage returns from a document.

• Punkt und Komma Sep 29, 2020, 1:30 PM (2 years ago)

  perhaps not yet ideal but many more functions than the LO-own search function

• salvatore ferlito Sep 21, 2020, 10:17 AM (3 years ago)

  Aggiungi estensione/i:
  /home/nome/.config/libreoffice/4/user/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/lu7177zp1vz3.tmp_/altsearch.oxt non esiste.
  
  Nemmeno su libreoffice 7.0.1.2

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