Re: c&p from gnumeric

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Zbigniew Chyla wrote:

> On Wed, 2001-06-20 at 12:06:51, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>
> > (...)
> >  If one wants to get raw HTML bytes of the selected part of the document for
> > plain application that doesn't check for presence of "text/html" format of X
> > selection -  such as gedit - one needs to create new gnumeric document, paste
> > selection into it, and export that temporary document to html. Or hack the
>
> We need only "Copy special" in Gnumeric. We discussed this long time ago.

 Hmm, it's a complete hack designed to work around stupidity of
 html and latex editors that don't check in what format X selection is
available I guess.

 But anyway - correct way of implementing copy functionality won't interfere
with this hack too - just offer to provide selection data in all formats
gnumeric can provide it in (rtf, html) and provide data in X selection (as
"COMPOUND_TEXT") in the format the user selected using "Copy special" dialog.

 Best regards,
  -Vlad