Problem with Find and Replace

shades · Post by **shades** » 2005-12-31 09:30:55

Greetings. I noticed a problem with the Find and Replace. I copied a word ("This") from a NWE document and pasted into the Find window. It added some kind of spacing (like a large tab) before it. While it will make the necessary changes, I have found that this "extra space" will remain in the Find window until the program is shut down. This is true of both NWE 2.5 and NWE 2.6beta4.

OS X 10.3.9 on eMac
NWE 2.5
NWE 2.6beta4

(I sent a screen shot of the FR window to Nisus Support).

Anyone else experience this?

ninjagame · Post by **ninjagame** » 2005-12-31 10:48:21

Hi shades,

now that you mention it, I tried the same with the same result. On my machine I'm running OS 10.4.3 so the effect can't be related to the 10.3.x specific problems.

Cheers, and a Happy New Year!

ninjagame

shades · Post by **shades** » 2006-01-28 13:56:07

This problem is persisting in 2.6FC3 (OS X 10.3.9).

dshan · Post by **dshan** » 2006-01-28 15:23:27

I can make it happen in 2.6 final release too - it seems to only happen if the text you select & copy begins with the first word in a paragraph. Normal words surrounded by spaces work fine.

New paragraphs beginning with tabs work fine too, it's only paragraphs the first line of which are automatically indented via the first line indent marker in the ruler that show the problem.

shades · Post by **shades** » 2006-01-28 16:39:33

I have found it a problem in most situations, not just with a word that begins the paragraph.

dshan · Post by **dshan** » 2006-01-28 20:47:01

shades wrote:I have found it a problem in most situations, not just with a word that begins the paragraph.

Hmm. It definitely only happens for me with the first word in a paragraph - and then only if the first line is auto-indented.

I'm using NWX 2.6 final release with OS X 10.4.4, maybe it's worse under 10.3.9.

cchapin · Post by **cchapin** » 2006-01-29 11:04:52

I can't seem to reproduce the problem you describe. Does using Edit > Copy > Copy to Find give the same result? If not, it could be a workaround until it's fixed.

--Craig

dshan · Post by **dshan** » 2006-01-29 14:25:54

cchapin wrote:I can't seem to reproduce the problem you describe. Does using Edit > Copy > Copy to Find give the same result? If not, it could be a workaround until it's fixed.

--Craig

You're right that does seem to avoid the problem. I can't repro it using Edit > Copy > Copy to Find. Excellent.

Shades,

You're right too, it does happen with words other than the first in a paragraph (seems to be any word/selection in the paragraph) - but only for paragraphs that have been auto-indented. Sorry, I thought I'd tested words other than the first in indented paragraphs, but I obviously didn't.

Post by **martin** » 2006-01-30 12:58:57

This is a minor annoyance, but will not affect find results. Basically what is happening is that Express is copying the paragraph style from the clipboard as well as the text. So if there was a head (left) indent present in the pasted text, it will show up in the Find dialog.

shades · Post by **shades** » 2006-01-30 16:26:25

Well, a little more than an annoyance.

It isn't just the beginning of a paragraph. If you copy a space and a letter, it will convert that space to the length of a tab indentation.

Oh well.

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