Re: filtering and copying in gnumeric (Andrea Taroni)

[David Stanaway <david stanaway net>]

Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> 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.
>
>   


That is true. It would be a different behavior than the 2 other main 
spreadsheet players though.

One benefit to that approach is it adds some functionality that isn't 
there with the other spreadsheets with reguard to hidden rows/columns. 
If you copy/paste a selection which includes hidden regions, the get 
revealed when you paste.