Sort and copy results

[Kohei Yoshida]

On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 22:52 +0200, Mat M wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Le Thu, 05 Jun 2014 19:33:13 +0200, Kohei Yoshida  
> <kohei.yoshida at collabora.com> a écrit:
> 
> > In Calc, you can go to Data -> Sort, and choose to copy the sorted
> > results to someplace else, rather than the default option of sorting in
> > place.
> >
> > I'm just wondering if anyone would miss this feature if it got removed.
> >
> > The UI is a bit awkward, and not clear what the associated two fields
> > (left drop-down and right input fields) are supposed to take.
> >
> > Also, handling this option internally would require quite some extra
> > effort, which, when one is trying to fix issues associted with this,
> > would pose a greater risk of breaking things.
> >
> > Any objections for removing this?
> >
> > Kohei
> 
> Could we (well, huh, you ?) just copy the data first, then sort them  
> in-place ? It will preserve the feature without causing effort to  
> maintain. And we may even soften the UI by adding some labels to boxes.

That's what we do today.  However, that would be a pain (really pain) to
support when you think of undo and redo, plus supporting reference
update that's been requested for so many years.

So, no.