Re: filtering and copying in gnumeric (Andrea Taroni)

[David Stanaway <david stanaway net>]

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.

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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