Bug 654188 - Cannot Find or Find/Replace Text that Contains Angle Brackets
Summary: Cannot Find or Find/Replace Text that Contains Angle Brackets
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gedit
Version: 14
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-17 04:50 UTC by David Le Sage
Modified: 2012-08-16 22:18 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-16 22:18:14 UTC
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Description David Le Sage 2010-11-17 04:50:10 UTC
Description of problem:
If the user searches for a string that contains angle brackets (such as an XML or HTML tag), the "find" tool will not be able to locate it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.30.4-1.fc14 (64 bit)

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open up an XML file, such as one that contains a lot of <listitem> tags.
2. Search -> Find -> <listitem> (with the "Match entire word only" option ticked.)
3. Nothing is found.
4. Search again for listitem without the angle brackets. All instances will be found.
5. The Search->Replace tool suffers from the same problem.

  
Actual results:
Cannot find the instances of the string <listitem> in the document.

Expected results:
Every instance of <listitem> in text should be highlighted and hitting find should jump user from instance to instance.

Additional info:
I tried variants such as listitem> (with just the closing angle bracket) and the same problem occurs so there seems to be a problem with using the angle bracket character when doing searches in this release of gEdit.

Comment 1 Brendan Jones 2010-11-17 13:08:23 UTC
Hi

It seems that gedit iterates through the document looking for text matching the input text. If found and 'Entire word' is checked, it then does a check that the found text starts and ends as a natural word according to the Pango library via the GtkTextIter::gtk_text_iter_starts_word and GtkTextIter::gtk_text_iter_starts_word functions (gedit-document.c:1883 and others) .

As a < or > bracket is not part of a natural language word according to Pango the find fails.

I'm not convinced thisa is a bug nor how useful the 'entire word' search is for XML elements in any case - unchecking 'Match entire word only' will find the text.

Assigning for the maintainer to comment before closing.




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