[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 154781] Pasting into a cell should make it change to edit mode

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154781

--- Comment #12 from Jim Avera <jim.avera at gmail.com> ---
> [pasting] multiple-cells content, eg. "1<tab>2<tab>3"?

Doesn't the same thing happen if you type those 5 keystrokes instead of pasting
them, i.e. a tab advances to the next cell?  If not, what is the desired
difference in behavior (between pasting multiple cells and typing 1<tab>2
etc.)?

> What if the clipboard contains an image? 

What should happen, for the best user experience?  Current behavior is
anomalous: If you click once in a cell and paste an image, the image overlays
any text in the cell, but the image is anchored *to the page* not to the cell
so the image will move to cover random other cell(s) when row heights change; 
If you double-click to enter edit mode, then LO refuses to paste an image
(Ctl-V does nothing).

My first thought is that images should by default be treated like characters,
so mixing characters and images can be done usefully: If in edit mode, then
Ctl-V with an image in the cb would paste the image and anchor it to the
preceding character, offset horizontally to start just after that character; if
there is no preceding character then anchor to the cell at the upper-left
corner.  I don't understand why anchoring to the page is ever useful, but a
user could always change the "Anchor" property after pasting if they wanted
that.

> What scenario makes it necessary to modify the pasted content (thinking of the opposite where users definitely do not want to change the pasted data but have to press escape to leave the edit mode)?

I'm not sure I understand this question.  I'm saying LO should *not* modify the
pasted content (currently it does -- it *deletes* pasted content when something
else is input).   If a user pastes and then types backspace, then yes the
pasted content should be modified; but in that case the user explicitly
initiated the modification.

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