The latest milestone release of OpenOffice 1.1 beta has actually got the regex search working (and it has fixed all the annoying bugs I had found in the beta 1 release, which broke the word count and all sorts of other things). So, only a year after it was officially “launched”, it’s ready for grown-up use. Well, once the almost completely bug-free version 1.1 proper comes out in September it will be.
“If people knew how software is actually written, they’d never climb on an airplane again” Ellen Ullman.