Bug 71770 fixed the issue in Writer, Impress and Draw, but unfortunately didnt in Calc.
Created attachment 106813 [details] edit mode cell
cell in edit mode commands to cut, copy, paste at the top of the context menu. if a cell is simply selected, the commands are not in the top of the list
Yes when you are editing the contents of a cell, the entries appear at the top of the context menu, but if you right-click on the cell itself, or selected a group of cells and then right-click, the entries will be at the bottom.
Patch pushed - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/13216/
Yousuf Philips committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=f1da0cff2f67b0c66ec9e3cc5d9855b591eb8648 fdo#84293 move clipboard functions to the top of context menu It will be available in 4.5.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Yousuf Philips committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=56856a43100ded70463d3721afa2fb13d054bd88&h=libreoffice-4-4 fdo#84293 move clipboard functions to the top of context menu It will be available in 4.4.0.0.beta2. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
This bug fix comes with LibreOffice 4.4 (release notes https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4) Cut, Copy and Paste actions are now at the top of the context menu.