On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 09:47:05PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 06/03/16 17:52, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > >>I do not see why overwriting is a problem. We do it everywhere, there is > >>nothing special about tables. > > > >Where else do we overwite when we do not paste into a selection? > >To be clear, this is a screencast: > >https://www.dropbox.com/s/3pogl5dbc11tx4l/screencast-LQ-4844.ogv?dl=0 > > I see what you mean. > > >And this is my desired behavior: > >https://www.dropbox.com/s/4obp8ozb8uvrhah/screencast-LQ-4844_2.ogv?dl=0 > > Note that spreadsheets may contain invisible data (the formulas), so that > overwriting is more insidious in this case.
Good point. The program most similar to LyX, Libre Office, does overwrite. And there doesn't seem to be support for changing this behavior so I will not insist more. > >Indeed, this is nice. But sometimes I'm not sure if people understand > >the mistake they made until it is too late (e.g. they saved). > > Saving does not kill undo, but I see your point. Ah true. Save as does though. Scott
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