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Allow copy/pasting of arbitrary selections of table cells
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Esanders
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• Elitre
Jan 5 2015, 11:55 AM2015-01-05 11:55:36 (UTC+0)
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  • VisualEditor (TR0: Interrupt)
  • VisualEditor-CopyPaste (Backlog)
  • VisualEditor-Tables (Backlog)
  • MW-1.27-release (WMF-deploy-2016-02-02_(1.27.0-wmf.12)) (Backlog)
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Description

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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Related Changes in Gerrit:
SubjectAuthorRepoBranchLines +/-
Tables: Multi-cell copy and pasteEsandersVisualEditor/VisualEditormaster+352 -81
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StatusSubtypeAssignedTask
 ResolvedEsandersT108245 Fully support basic table editing in the visual editor
 ResolvedEsandersT85791 Allow copy/pasting of arbitrary selections of table cells

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• Elitre created this task.Jan 5 2015, 11:55 AM2015-01-05 11:55:36 (UTC+0)
• Elitre raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.
• Elitre updated the task description. (Show Details)
• Elitre added a project: VisualEditor.
• Elitre subscribed.
Jdforrester-WMF subscribed.Jan 5 2015, 12:35 PM2015-01-05 12:35:45 (UTC+0)
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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 PM2015-01-05 12:36:20 (UTC+0)
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.
• Elitre added a comment.Jan 5 2015, 2:45 PM2015-01-05 14:45:13 (UTC+0)
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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.

• Elitre added a comment.Jan 5 2015, 5:17 PM2015-01-05 17:17:34 (UTC+0)
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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 PM2015-08-06 21:07:13 (UTC+0)
Esanders updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 22 2016, 12:14 AM2016-01-22 00:14:09 (UTC+0)
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gerritbot subscribed.Jan 22 2016, 1:17 AM2016-01-22 01:17:35 (UTC+0)
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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 AM2016-01-22 01:17:36 (UTC+0)
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Freezer to TR0: Interrupt on the VisualEditor board.Jan 22 2016, 7:14 PM2016-01-22 19:14:47 (UTC+0)
• Elitre added a comment.Jan 25 2016, 1:41 PM2016-01-25 13:41:08 (UTC+0)
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(Ed, I don't understand your edit to the description.)

Trizek-WMF added a project: User-notice.Jan 25 2016, 3:18 PM2016-01-25 15:18:39 (UTC+0)
Trizek-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
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gerritbot added a comment.Jan 28 2016, 6:58 AM2016-01-28 06:58:28 (UTC+0)
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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 PM2016-01-28 20:43:20 (UTC+0)
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 AM2016-01-29 10:31:03 (UTC+0)
Johan moved this task from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.Jan 29 2016, 11:42 AM2016-01-29 11:42:48 (UTC+0)
Johan moved this task from In current Tech/News draft to Recently announced in Tech/News on the User-notice board.Feb 3 2016, 1:18 PM2016-02-03 13:18:17 (UTC+0)
Johan moved this task from Recently announced in Tech/News to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.Feb 8 2016, 11:59 AM2016-02-08 11:59:53 (UTC+0)
Ladsgroup edited projects, added: User-notice-archive; removed: User-notice.Aug 13 2022, 1:54 PM2022-08-13 13:54:42 (UTC+0) ·
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