#618 It's cumbersome to copy log lines

[Steinar Bang]

Platform: i7, Windows 7 Enterprise N (64bit)
JRE 1.8 Update 91 (32bit)
davmail 4.7.2-2427

Yesterday I tried to select multiple log lines and copy them, but that wasn't possible.
It was possible to copy the log line by line by selecting each line, and pressing Ctrl-C, but there was no copy command in the Edit menu, and no dropdown menu with copy commands.

Desired behaviour:

1. Select the log cells I want to copy with either:
   a. Click-and-drag
   b. Click and then Shift-click on lines to select all intermediate lines
   c. Click and the Ctrl-click to add individual lines
2. Right-click the selection, and select either:
   a. Copy
   b. Copy with headers
3. Paste the selection somewhere as TAB-separated text

It would also be nice if the File menu contained a save as spreadsheet entry (to transfer log lines with exceptions with stack traces with multiple lines, which don't transfer well into a TAB separated format). Apache POI provides Java support to save Excel files.

(There is the Apache ODF Toolkit for Libreoffice/Openoffice, but that is in incubating and hasn't seen action since 2014, so it may be dead?)

[Mickael Guessant]

Looks like you tried to extract log statements from LogFactor gui, it's far easier to access davmail.log file directly.