Re: Gnumeric usability improvements

[Neil Booth <neil daikokuya demon co uk>]

Jody Goldberg wrote:-

> > 3) The keystrokes "End then Arrow Key" to move to the end of a
> >    consecutive list of non-empty cells in the direction specified (or
> >    to skip all empty cells in that direction, as appropriate).
> Is this different from Ctrl-Arrow ?

No; I hadn't noticed that.  Since some users, like me <g>, use the End
idiom, could you add that as an alias?  Having the same keystrokes do
the same thing makes one feel more at home.

> > 4) Ctrl+# formats a number as a textual date (there are various other
> >    quick formatting key combinations).
> Neat.  If you can find a list of these we can add them.

I'll come up with a list of various key combinations; not just now
though (I don't run Windows at home so I can't test it).

> There are 2 things at play here.
> 1) 0.65 treats the full range selection the same way XL does.
> 2) We are forced to use Meta-space rather than Shift-space due to
>    internationalisation problems.

Hmm, I'm running 0.65 and if a select B5:C5 and press CTRL+SPACE I
only get column B selected.  I'm pretty sure Excel gives B and C.

> Gnumeric supports array formulas.  I think 0.6[34] had a minor bug
> that made them unusable from the keyboard, but they are there.
> NOTE : we only support matrix mode, Gnumeric does not do implicit
> iteration as yet.

Can you explain how?  I'm running 0.65.  I can't get anything
resembling an array formula.  Do you understand what I mean by this?

> This is quite useful.  Please file 1-4 & 7 as enhancement requests at
> bugzilla.gnome.org.

Will do.

Neil.