When doing a Find and Replace, the Replace button doesn’t just replace, Replaces and then Finds Next, so then you have to manually go back to where you were to see whether the replace worked as expected. Is there any way to make the Replace button just Replace, instead of Replace and Find Next?
As a workaround: copy the text with which you will replace, find once your target text, close the Find and Replace dialog (or the Find toolbar), paste (Ctrl+V), find again (Ctrl+Shift+F)…
With a macro.
Crazy workaround:
To see, if something is done I use find (so I see the first occurence), then replace all. It returns to the replaced first item.
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If you want to see every replace, I see 2 ways. Either a macro or you add some unlikely marker to the replace (for example @@) and use a second run to find and check all markers… Last step would be removing markers.
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tdf#138285 (“FIND AND REPLACE DIALOG: Allow users to see the
replace result before moving to the next search”)
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