Re: [MACTCL] Tktable Question...

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

On 2011-03-26, at 6:28 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:
> One common action would be to copying a section ( not the whole cell contents) of a cell and
> pasting it into an insertion point in another cell.
> 
> It appears to me that one cannot copy ( cmd-c) a 'piece' of a cell and pasting ( cmd-v) always
> seems to completely wipe out the contents of the target cell...
> 
> Is there any way I can copy just a section of a table cell?
> 
> Is there any way I can paste some text into a cell *at* the insertion point?

There is no built-in support for this, but you could add it through extra bindings.  With the 'icursor' subcommand, you can get or set the cursor position inside the cell.  Since you know the value of the cell, you can then do all the other manipulation through bindings.

However, more common is to place an entry or text widget for editing whenever you enter a cell, leverage those core widget features, then "commiting" the contents to the table on <Return> or similar binding.

Jeff