[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 134675] [EDITING] Whole column cannot be pasted to a column range over 23 selected by shift-click

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134675

--- Comment #4 from Eike Rathke <erack at redhat.com> ---
What magic number would you like instead? 42? I chose the discordian 23 because
it breaks up something..

The point in this behaviour is to prevent a "paste something into the entire
selected range". Which happens if only one cell (or a range of data) was
copied, pasting that onto entire selected columns will repeat the data over the
selection to fill it up. Which usually leads to out of memory.

Having copied an entire column first including all empty cells is a somewhat
special case though (there can be no repetition). Which that checking code does
not know about.

Fwiw, pasting such copied entire columns works if the target range is not
selected as entire columns but only as first cell starting positions like in
any other normal paste operation, e.g. B1:EZ1 (hit Shift+Ctrl+T to focus the
Name Box and enter B1:EZ1 and hit Enter, after which the range is selected).

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