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Bug 505980

Summary:	When editing text, pressing Alt in Find cancels line selection on Linux
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	akurtakov, daniel_megert, ericwill
Version:	4.6	Keywords:	triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Philippe Ombredanne

2016-10-14 08:55:32 EDT

On Version: Neon (4.6) Build id: I20160606-1100
On Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop, 64 bits

When I am in an editor with selected text lines and press Ctrl+F to replace, I then enter the find and replace text.

If I type Alt-A as a shortcut to the "replace all" button, the scope is changed to "all" as soon as I type Alt and the selected lines are not honored and deselected: instead the text is replaced in the whole document.

This looks like a recent behaviour. It was not this way in the past. For instance I checked an old Eclipse 3.4 and this bug is not there.
The bug is not present either in Version: Kepler Service Release 2 Build id: 20140224-0627

Comment 1 Philippe Ombredanne

2016-10-14 09:49:27 EDT

Based on the code history for https://github.com/eclipse/eclipse.platform.text/blame/c009accb9bfb0ddee3aa26dc28bf4248793d6c6d/org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor/src/org/eclipse/ui/texteditor/FindReplaceDialog.java 

I can find this: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=410603 and this https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=404202 that could be related?

Comment 2 Philippe Ombredanne

2016-10-14 09:51:26 EDT

The other possibility would be a side effect of https://github.com/eclipse/eclipse.platform.text/commit/64b34b614087b96e6cc92c72143768b98ae32602

Or something deeper in SWT.

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2016-10-14 09:53:38 EDT

Works fine for me on Windows 7.

Comment 4 Philippe Ombredanne

2016-10-14 10:55:42 EDT

Danny: this is clearly a Linux-only issue. I should have said that I checked on Windows before.

Comment 5 Alexander Kurtakov

2018-07-13 05:14:27 EDT

I can't reproduce this one with 4.8. Is it still an issue for you?

Comment 6 Eric Williams

2019-02-01 14:01:08 EST

(In reply to Alexander Kurtakov from comment #5)
> I can't reproduce this one with 4.8. Is it still an issue for you?

No response in months, closing this bug now. Please reopen it if the issue is reproducible on 4.10 and a supported GTK3 version.