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(I think this is also reported in bugs 22358 and 22816, but these aren't maintained anymore and are really crowded)

The "find" routine of "Search&Replace" does not work as expected in Opera and therefore "replace" doesn't work either.

The problem are line breaks: When getting the text from the textarea, all \r are removed, so every line break is only one character (\n). When setting the text selection (selectionStart/selectionEnd) Opera counts the line breaks as two characters (\r\n).

Example:
A\r\n
B

If you want to select "B", the text of the textarea is loaded, but then the \r is removed: "A\nB", so selectionStart=2 and selectionEnd=3. If applied to the above text, the following result is shown (selection in []):

A\r[\n]
B

The \n is selected instead of the B.

The problem is inside "jquery,mediawiki". The function "val" on line 2143 is used to get the content of the textarea. I don't know why, but on line 2159 not "ret" is returned, but "ret.replace(rreturn, "")", which removes the \r.

I really don't know why this is done. Firefox+Chrome don't contain any \r in textareas, so removing the replacement should work in Opera - but of course I don't know which functions also rely on this "val" function.