Re: [icon-users] Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X Annoyance in Tables
- From: Richard Porter <ricp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 20:58:09 +0100
On 27 May 2012 John Harrison wrote:
>>>> What happens is that both Ctrl-C and Ctrl-X copy the whole of the cell
>>>> contents to the clipboard, and Ctrl-X deletes the whole of the cell
>>>> contents, not just the selected text. Ctrl-V pastes everything into
>>>> the new cell.
>>> Yes, you have to be careful to select the text within the cell, rather
>>> than select the whole cell. I find that dragging through the text to
>>> select is better (especially if there is a stray space at the end that
>>> you can leave out of the selection).
>> But I had only selected part of the text which was shown in reverse
>> video. Surely if the whole cell was selected then it should all be
>> reversed?
> Are you sure you only had text selected, and not the whole of the enclosed
> paragraph?
It's behaving as though the whole of the cell is selected even though
only part of the text is highlighted. I've even tried excluding the
first and last paragraphs.
> The EW document model doesn't support multiple paragraphs in a cell, so if
> you try to paste in a whole paragraph, it will replace the paragraph that
> is there.
Well I was able to cut one cell and append the text to another cell,
but when I try to cut the original text from the first cell it cuts
the whole cell.
> You might argue that isn't a desirable behaviour, but doing otherwise would
> be inconsistent.
I'm not tryong to have more than one paragraph. I'm just pasting some
more text into the existing paragraph.
> My suggestion of drag selecting was to ensure that you copied a text
> selection, not a paragraph.
That's what I am doing. I can't even save one lot of text into Edit
while I move the other text between cells because it won't even let me
paste text back or save the file into an empty cell claiming that it
would have more than one paragraph. And of course if there's nothing
there I can't select it in order to replace it. I'm stuffed!
Actually I have managed to end up with what I wanted but only by
cutting one cell and pasting it onto the end of the other cell, then
copying the original text from the second cell and pasting it into the
first cell, which leaves the combined text from both cells in both
cells. I can then cut the excess text from the end of the first cell
but the only way I can delete the excess text from the beginning of
the second cell is by deleting individual characters with BS, Delete
or End.
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Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/
mailto:ricp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
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