Re: filtering and copying in gnumeric (Andrea Taroni)

[David Stanaway <david stanaway net>]

David Stanaway wrote:
> 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.
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Also - this approach only covers  copying from filtered regions, it 
doesn't cover any other interactive operations like deleting a selection 
etc...