[Bug 158288] When you select part of a column with merged cells, all columns that are part of the merged cell are selected

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158288

--- Comment #8 from Aron Budea <aron.budea at gmail.com> ---
Let's see if my understanding if correct:
- When you merge A4 to C4, there's no A4 cell anymore, only A4:C4 range,
- A range is a rectangular area of cells,
- When you select cells using Shift, or hold the left mouse button and drag,
you select a range.

This implies once the cells are merged in the example, there is no A2:A5 range
anymore, and the smallest range including A2:A5 (and consequently A4:C4) is
A2:C5.
I'm not arguing there shouldn't be a way to select the least amount of
cells+ranges that come with selection of cells, it just won't be a range
anymore, and it should be a separate way apart from range selection.

(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #7)
> This seems like a bug to me, because it denies us the expressive potential
> of the selection. We can choose to select a 3x5 region covering the merged
> cell; and we can (try to) select 1x5 region, in one of 3 ways (left, middle,
> right). Why should all four user behaviors result in the same thing, while
> almost no mouse-down selection behavior can produce a selection of
> a1,a2,a3,merged-a4-through-c4,a5 ?
I see no argument in this comment why the selection you're looking for
shouldn't be done in a different way, perhaps would be good to think about that
first, instead of fragmenting the behavior by adding a compatibility flag.

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