1. Open Writer 2. Press Ctrl-F 3. Right click in Find dialog 4. Press Special Character warn:legacy.tools:22589:1:sfx2/source/appl/appinit.cxx:189: GetSpecialCharsForEdit() not found! 5. Note how it never comes up.. I'm on git master from yesterday. Notes: I was originally trying to reproduce this bug on master - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/958955
Thanks for your bug report. Reproduced in 4.4 beta 1.
Created attachment 110208 [details] bibisectlog I'm going to try to narrow it further by a regular bisect..
It's commit http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=7f7d2213209dd8e23292ec5a85fbab6127824c49 Reverting it makes it work again. Not sure of the implications though...
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=8fc14413d9dadede63743ec76603d95eb587f580 Resolves: fdo#86799 fix insert special char in Find/Find and Replace It will be available in 4.5.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=e0561053e033b1a2686d2ad7b397b1dae926a1f7&h=libreoffice-4-4 Resolves: fdo#86799 fix insert special char in Find/Find and Replace It will be available in 4.4.0.0.beta2. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
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