'Find' followed by 'Replace All' fails to replace the first instance

Cannot reproduce in AbiWord 2.4.4 in Ubuntu Dapper - what is your platform?

2.4.4 on dapper. More testing shows it to be seemingly random; I type "foo foo foo", go edit -> replace, replace "foo" with "bar", hit "replace all" and it works. I then go edit->undo so they're all back to "foo", hit "replace all", and then only the first and third change but the middle foo is still foo. Then I go edit->undo, and hit "replace all" again, this time only the first changes. Undo that, replace all, and all three change.

This pattern of all three changing, first and third changing, only first changing, all changing again seems to continue.

I can't seem to reproduce this. The only problem you might have is when you hit the "Find and Replace" button - you hit it once, it finds the text, you hit it again, and it replaces the highlighted text (that it found previously). You hit find and replace once, and then hit replace all, and it only replaces the ones that are not highlighted. This doesn't seem buggy.

If you agree this is not a bug, shall we close it?

Thank you for letting us know.

I can confirm this on Edgy with abiword 2.4.5. Exact procedure to reproduce:

* Open Abiword
* Type 'foo foo foo'
* Go to search/replace
* Type 'foo' in the search box and 'bar' in the replace box
* Hit FIND (it finds the first foo)
* Then hit REPLACE ALL

Expected result: 'bar bar bar'

Actual result: 'foo bar bar'

This happens each time. If you press REPLACE ALL at the very beginning though you get 'bar bar bar', whether anything is selected or not.

I would call this a bug because the user might search for a word first and when the result appears discover that there are several instances. When she subsequently hits Replace All she would expect all the words in the document to be replaced.

(I'll file this upstream)

Still present on 2.4.6 in Feisty.

Still present in Gutsy.

Fixed upstream in 2.6 branch and trunk - r22162 and r22178 (combined)

Fix confirmed in Hardy!