search button not available in some cases

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 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

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Just press CTRL + F, type something into the text box and look Find button to stay greyed out.
Attaching a screenshot to better understand this.

not confirming the issue on current jaunty, I got it once yesterday selected something in the combo I think and it's working since

Here is the screenshots of the bug. As said above, to reproduce the bug, one just have to press ctrl+f
same problem with search and replace. There is no bug while choosing the incremental search option from the search menu. It can be used as a workaround.

I experience the same problem as jtlb. The Find button in the Find window (Ctrl-F) and the Replace button in the Replace window (Ctrl-H) only activate if I click the dropdown arrow and select a previous pattern. If I instead type something into the box (which is blank when I open the window), the button does not activate. Once I choose a previous pattern, the windows work fine in the current document until I close it.

Specific steps to reproduce:
1) Open a new gedit window
2) Type or copy-paste some text into the window
3) Click Search > Find or Ctrl-F
4) Type in a search term in the "Search for:" box
5) Notice that the "Find" button is inactive

Expected result:
The "Find" button should activate when a search term is entered into the "Search for:" box.

Sebastien,

I can reproduce this too with an up-to-date 9.04.

The bug has been sent on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574059

The bug has been fixed in gedit SVN.

I'm attaching a tested debdiff for jaunty that include upstream patch and fix this bug, in case that there is some interest to have gedit fixed in ubuntu before gedit 2.25.9

gedit developers changed the fix in their svn repositories, so my debdiff isn't the final fix, even if it works. Might be better to wait on 2.25.9.

thanks for your work but GNOME 2.26 is due in 2 weeks there is probably no reason to hurry a backport there

This bug was fixed in the package gedit - 2.25.8-0ubuntu2

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gedit (2.25.8-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/control.in:
    - add vcs information
  * debian/patches/91_svn_change_fix_search_button_not_enabling.patch:
    - svn change to fix search button not being enabled when typing text
      (lp: #337432)
  * debian/watch:
    - watch unstable series too there

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:42:24 +0100