https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168496

Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|The text import window      |Text import partially
                   |doesn't save the settings.  |respects and partially
                   |                            |ignores persisted
                   |                            |fixed-width column choices
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #3 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
Let me rephrase:

When you import plain text into a Calc page, there's a dialog with the import
settings. One way to import the text is to assume each line is made up of
columns of a fixed width (same width on each line). There's UI

That dialog persists (among other things) the widths of those columns, after
you had set those widths earlier somehow.

What Matias demonstrates is that sometimes, even though you see the persisted
column markers - red dots or balloons - you actually don't see some of the
lines separating the columns, in the preview; and when you perform the text
import - that column separator is not respected, i.e. what had earlier been two
columns, are now a single column. Yet it's not the case that _all_ column
separators are ignored. In Matias' example - the first separator is ignored and
the second is respected.

Note also that, with the repeated import dialog, if you indicate a column
separator where the "faux" indicator is located, it will be removed; and if you
again indicate a separator there, it will be re-introduced and respected during
actual import.

Confirmed with
Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 0563d0e3581b5029cfe9476d5b5313d6322c5e08
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

I agree with the "minor" severity, since this can be overcome by explicitly
re-marking the column separator.

Matias, please check what happens when you have more than just two column
separators: Is it always the first two columns that get fused? Is it some other
pairs?

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