Find-Replace does not work for Reference Designators

Schematic
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Hi, can someone confirm that the Replace matches in reference designators are not working?
I cannot replace them here on my project.

Kicad find them, but I cannot replace them
I am looking for C3 (to find all Capacitors starting from C3 like C301, C302, C303…)
I want to replace them by C201, C202, C203…

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Application: KiCad Schematic Editor

Version: 6.0.6-3a73a75311~116~ubuntu22.04.1, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.0.5
	libcurl/7.81.0 OpenSSL/3.0.2 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.4.8 libidn2/2.3.2 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.2) libssh/0.9.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.5.12

Platform: Linux 5.15.0-40-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, ubuntu, x11

Build Info:
	Date: Jun 20 2022 15:50:05
	wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.74.0
	OCC: 7.5.2
	Curl: 7.83.1
	ngspice: 36
	Compiler: GCC 11.2.0 with C++ ABI 1016

Build settings:
	KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
	KICAD_SPICE=ON
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I can find my R10, but can not replace it.

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However, it does work when I turn off those other two check boxes.

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Alternatively, it’s just as quick (or quicker) to just use find ( [Ctrl +f]), then depress [Esc] to get out of the find dialog and press e to edit the text found.

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Bug then, right? And it is good that you are not trying to replace a substring of the RefDes, but the whole thing…

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Yeh, the edition part is pretty quick since Kicad has this set of shortcuts that are awesome. Now, having the replace function working would be better!

Anyways. I am almost done. But there are a few components that are still complaining. There might be something else hidden in my issue.

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It looks like it’s a bug, but if you want to report it you’d first have to check if it’s already fixed in the nightlies.

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I can’t remember fixing anything in that area, but JP is active there too – so he might have done something. My bet, though, would be that it’s still a bug in 6.99…

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Should I file a bug report @JeffYoung ?

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Yes, please do. My laptop recently died and I’m now on an M1 (where our builds are a bit troubled), so it may be a while before I can look at it.

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Cool, no problem, I am going to do that.

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