Problem description: When saving to CSV, I have the option to specify the character set, the field delimiter, and the text delimiter, plus a few other things. I don't have any of these options when copying cells and pasting to plain text (e.g. to PuTTY); it always uses tabs to separate cells. For my application, tabs are forbidden, and I must use spaces. My workaround is to paste to Vim, convert tabs to spaces, then copy and paste again to where I need it. Steps to reproduce: 1. Copy cells 2. Paste to an application expecting plain text, e.g. PuTTY 3. Cells are separated by tabs, no matter what you may have wanted Current behavior: Pasting to plain text always separates cells with tabs Expected behavior: Configuration dialog accessible somewhere in menus to change the delimiters in the same manner as when saving to CSV. Operating System: Windows 7 Version: 4.1.4.2 release
As it exposed, it is not a bug description but an enhancement request. Please, could you check if you can't do what you want with current new version 4.2 ? Best regards. JBF
Will download 4.2 momentarily. First let me thank you for changing this to a feature request. I tried to report it as such by using "Help > Send Feedback... > File An Enhancement Request", but it still came up as a bug. Guess we need a meta bug report on that. :^P
Okay, installed. Nope, I can't find any such option. I'm not sure where it would be, but I looked throughout Edit and Tools > Options.
Valid enhancement request I think.
Design team could think about the exact dialog implementation
We discussed this topic in the design meeting. UI/UX-wise it seems to be easy to introduce a "copy special" option, something that evokes a dialog where the user can change the delimiter. But the trouble start with inserting and worst case is that those copied content always require a text import dialog to paste back. The recommendation is therefore to realize the special copy function per macro (and ideally share this as extension).