[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 126380] [Feature request] Glue points: Add copy & paste operations, upon selection of them

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126380

--- Comment #2 from Luiz Gonçalves <lcdgoncalves at gmail.com> ---
Hi Xisco and all. & thanks for your attention. Let me add some extra info and
(possibly) make my points more clear (no pun intended).

I don't really know if these are documented features but ([] means optional)
- one can actually select multiple glue points (when using the "glue point
menu" and with the mouse, or selecting one by one only holding the shift key);
- if you try to delete them all ([Edit-]Ctrl-X or Del), all points are deleted;
- if you try to move them with the mouse, the points move with the cursor.
- a status message is displayed: "<n> glue points from Shape selected" 

But (again)
- if you try to paste ([Edit-]Ctrl-V or Del), the *whole shape* is pasted;
- when one tries to move them with the keyboard arrows, as you were dealing
with a plain object, the *whole shape* is moved and not only the points. 
- consistently, when these selected points are copied and pasted (with
[Edit-]Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V, within the contour and still in "glue point menu"), the
*whole shape* is pasted (together with the glue points).

IMHO, the usage of connections, glues and groupings is somewhat natural in
making diagrams.  Before I began to use the glue points facilities, I used to
group "nearly radius=0 circles, no lines, no color filling" and the relevant
shape; the collapsed circles' "bounding boxes points" were used to make the
connections.  Of course, the final result was a beginner's mess since the
internal shapes/glue points of a group are not exposed to the outside of the
group (which is another feature request I intend to ask for you patient guys);
but it worked like a charm (and of course with the group removed) when one had
to make some movings, and copyings and so on. 

Hope it helps. Thanks again.

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