Maniphest T85791

Allow copy/pasting of arbitrary selections of table cells
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~~I don't seem to be able to do it and I can't remember if this used to work before.~~

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Tables: Multi-cell copy and paste	VisualEditor/VisualEditor	master	+352 -81

Customize query in gerrit

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		Esanders	T108245 Fully support basic table editing in the visual editor
		Resolved		Esanders	T85791 Allow copy/pasting of arbitrary selections of table cells

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• Elitre created this task.Jan 5 2015, 11:55 AM

• Elitre raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.

• Elitre updated the task description. (Show Details)

• Elitre added a project: VisualEditor.

• Elitre added a subscriber: • Elitre.

You can do this, but you have to select either side of it to work. Copying sub-parts of tables doesn't, however, so re-purposing this.

Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Allow copy/pasting of tables to Allow copy/pasting of arbitrary selections of table cells.Jan 5 2015, 12:36 PM

Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.

Jdforrester-WMF added projects: VisualEditor-CopyPaste, VisualEditor-Tables.

Jdforrester-WMF set Security to None.

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.

I'm testing on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_British-Americans . I don't manage to copy/paste the table in Safari, but it seems to work in Opera. Results may vary though.

Will right-clicking on the table to copy it ever work?

nshahquinn-wmf added a parent task: T108245: Fully support basic table editing in the visual editor.Aug 6 2015, 9:07 PM

Esanders updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 22 2016, 12:14 AM

Esanders edited a custom field.

Change 265660 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders):
Multi-cell table copy and paste

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/265660

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 22 2016, 1:17 AM

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Freezer to TR0: Interrupt on the VisualEditor board.Jan 22 2016, 7:14 PM

(Ed, I don't understand your edit to the description.)

Trizek-WMF added a project: User-notice.Jan 25 2016, 3:18 PM

Trizek-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.

Trizek-WMF added a subscriber: Trizek-WMF.

Change 265660 merged by jenkins-bot:
Tables: Multi-cell copy and paste

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/265660

Jdforrester-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Jan 28 2016, 8:43 PM

Jdforrester-WMF assigned this task to Esanders.

Jdforrester-WMF edited projects, added MW-1.27-release (WMF-deploy-2016-02-02_(1.27.0-wmf.12)); removed Patch-For-Review.

Trizek-WMF moved this task from Not ready to announce to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.Jan 29 2016, 10:31 AM

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