[Framers] Old bug: Find does not find - character CR stops search

[Alan Litchfield]

Could this also come from documents that were edited in Notepad (eg XML 
modules) and Wordpad?

Alan

On 25/07/17 23:53, Rick Quatro wrote:
> Hi Klaus,
> 
> Text imported from word contains a line-feed/return combination at the end
> of each paragraph. In many of my scripts, I strip out the invisible
> line-feed character to "normalize" things in the document. Round-tripping to
> MIF does the same thing. The import filter should do this automatically, but
> it doesn't, at least since the last time I checked.
> 
> Rick
> 
> Rick Quatro
> Carmen Publishing Inc.
> rick at frameexpert.com
> 585-366-4017
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Framers
> [mailto:framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf
> Of Klaus Daube
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 3:49 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: [Framers] Old bug: Find does not find - character CR stops search
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> A colleague in Germany again run into this old trap. Hence I have filed bug
> FRMAKER-3169 : Find does not find - character CR stops search
> 
> I have first documented this problem for FM-7. At that time the reason was
> an import from Word. But it turns out that is not the only possible cause
> (as the colleague said). It was quite difficult to shrink down his file to a
> two-page test case:
> As soon as I cut out some text, the problem was gone! So it took me several
> attempts to shrink down the document to a short test case (2h).
> 
> There are other strange things with these \x0d:
> «It also happens that opening the file multiple times - with searching for
> the word - and then closing without save - suddenly lets you find the
> word... If once found, you need to restart FM (without save of cours) to get
> the Find problem again. It even may happen that intensive scrolling back and
> forth 'cleans' the document.»
> 
> MIF wash cures the document!
> But first you must have the idea that it can be cured...
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