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------- Additional comments from m...@openoffice.org Mon Aug 23 09:19:51 +0000 2010 ------- I agree with the last two comments: if an "open file" dialog is opened in a Calc document window, Calc should get the preference for text files, otherwise Writer. As I wrote, I made this suggestion quite some time ago, but this was rejected by our UX people. But that isn't what this issue is about: here it was requested that "delimited" files should be opened in Calc *always*. And I have to repeat that this is wrong, at least without a clear definition what kind of "delimited" files are meant to be treated this way. @hoserjoe: we are not talking about *tab delimited* files only, the request is about "delimited" files in general (see summary of the issue). And I also have to repeat that - taken the plularity of delimiter options in Calc into account - every text file is a "delimited" file, because they all contains line ends, spaces, commas etc. So finding out which combination of delimiters qualifies for Calc preference *is* guess work. Even in case we limit that to tabs, commas and line ends: even in "real delimited" files it's possible that not all lines have the same number of delimites. How many lines with a different number of delimiters do we accept before we don't use Calc by default? One line? Ten? 5 percent? Again it's guess work. We could make it strict: if there is a text file where every line contains the same number of tabs or commas, it's most probably something we should load into Calc. But would that be enough to make a difference? @mike2468: in the meantime, you can register ".rst" extension for scalc.exe (Windows assumed) in your system. Now every double click on an ".rst" file will open it in Calc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sc.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sc.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
