Re: filtering and copying in gnumeric (Andrea Taroni)

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 18:06 -0500, David Stanaway wrote:
> Yeah - it is a must have, but an intrusive implementation would be needed.
> 
> First step would be an acknowledgment  from the developers that this is 
> a feature worth implementing. Any patch that attempts to make it work is 
> going to touch a lot of things.

I am not sure that it would indeed have to touch a lot of things. A
"simple" implementation could simply consist of another option in the
"past special" section to paste only the visible items in a compressed
format.

Andreas
 
> 
> John Leonard wrote:
> > Hi Andrea
> >
> > This is a known bug.
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315853
> > The bug was posted in 2005. Not sure if anyone is actively trying to 
> > fix it, but it would be a big step forward if someone could. I would 
> > agree it is a pretty serious limitation to an otherwise commendable 
> > bit of software.
> >
> > John Leonard
> >
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> >     Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 14:30:11 +0200
> >     From: Andrea Taroni
> >     Subject: filtering and copying in gnumeric
> >     To: gnumeric-list gnome org
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> >     Dear All,
> >
> >     I am looking for a way to easily copy and paste filtered data in
> >     gnumeric. That is to say I wish to filter a data set, copy the
> >     resulting smaller data set, and paste it elsewhere. Whereas I would
> >     like to get only the filtered data when I paste, I in fact get the
> >     full data set. I cannot find documentation on this issue, except
> >     for a
> >     message on this list a while ago, which went unreplied:
> >
> >     http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/2005-September/msg00080.html
> >
> >     I would like to stress that I am very much a proponent of gnumeric,
> >     and prefer it to the very cumbersome alternatives there are out
> >     there.
> >     This does however seem to me to be a rather basic limitation of
> >     gnumeric.
> >
> >     I would appreciate any help you may give,
> >
> >     Andrea
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