On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:01:09PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 26/02/2016 07:46, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > >What should happen when we copy e.g. one column, five rows within a > >table and put the cursor into a separate table that just has e.g. two > >rows. Currently we overwrite the contents of the cells that are there > >and just lose the rest of the paste. Another question is: is overwriting > >correct even if the dimensions agree? We currently only check that the > >dimensions agree when we are pasting into a selection. > > Both LibreOffice 5 and Word 2007 add as many rows/columns as needed to make > the pasted cells fit.
Makes sense. What about when the dimensions are correct. What do LO and Word do? In Libre Office Calc when I paste over something, it asks me if I want to replace. Is that what we should do in LyX (instead of silently overwriting)? The warning in Libre Office Calc says: "You are pasting data into cells that already contain data. Do you really want to overwrite the existing data?" [checkbox that is checked by default] Warn me about this in the future. [button: yes] [button: no] [button: help] Gnumeric, on the other hand, seems to not warn at all and just automatically overwrites. So I guess LyX's behavior is consistent with Gnumeric, although I personally do not like it. Scott
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