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Bug 122178 - Fragmented selections in formulas
Fragmented selections in formulas
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: Main System
1.1.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-09-13 01:44 UTC by Patrick
Modified: 2008-10-02 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Patrick 2003-09-13 01:44:04 UTC 
A fragmented selection is a group 2+ discontinuous selection regions which
can be made by selecting a region, holding down control selecting another
region and repeating until you have all the fragmentation you can handle.

This works in Gnumeric for general selections. It does not work when
entering a selection to formulas such =sum().

Jody said on the mailing list (Sept 11-12, 2003) that this would be "a fair
amount of work".
Comment 1 Andreas J. Guelzow 2003-09-14 04:39:37 UTC 
Why would one need it for entering a selection to formulas such
=sum()? Typing a comma instead of holding the control key has
effectively the same result.
Comment 2 Jody Goldberg 2005-01-11 05:06:10 UTC 
I'm unclear what this would actually do.
Lets say the entry has
    =SUM(A1
in it.  And the user ctrl-clicks on B1.  Do we end up with
    =SUM(A1,B1
or
    =SUM((A1,B1)
where gnumeric does not support returning a set of ranges to a single argument.
Comment 3 Andreas J. Guelzow 2008-10-02 21:47:50 UTC 
Without knowing what the expected behaviour should be (see comment #2) we can't even decide whether this enhancelemtnt request makes sense or is realistic.

Clearly in 5 years nobody has thought of this as sufficently specified to be implemented.

Patrick please reopen this enhancement request if you can provide more details of which behaviour you expect.