https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140290

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--- Comment #6 from fender <[email protected]> ---
Hello Heiko Tietze. thanks for trying to implement this and advocating for it.

I think I have a way to make all camps happy. The ones that want to be
grammatically consistent, even though I see nothing wrong here, save work for
the ones that "have to" code around the 'Column A' issue and so on.

Why don't u guys reinvent the column sorting altogether. Why don't you make it
sortable by simple text. Instead of doing it the old GUI way, just give the
users a text field with CSV-type of separation. 

Take this short video as example. (mute for audio. I always forget to remove
it)
Once I sort, I have to go through the whole process again, unless I make a
macro at which point I might as well just have a text field for sorting.
ffffffff
https://vimeo.com/643321746


Now, some people might have the spatial foresight knowing how they will want to
sort their columns to best fit their reading in relation to what they want to
extract information-wise, but I'm certain the majority doesn't know until they
start sorting.

That way folks like me, keyboard folks, don't need to use the GUI at all.

I would still prefer for it to be letter first, for the adhoc quick sorting,
but that's meeting half-way.
It won't be as clean as only having to use the left hand because I will have to
lift my hand off the mouse to input the comma, but it'll be manageable. Less
work to implement bc no hacks needed and way easier to sort for almost
everyone.

And hacking around it will be the biggest easter egg ever since it's completely
unintuitive. not even the laziest keyboard users will think of using the letter
if the letter isn't the first thing the line has. Unless it happens
accidentally or they read it in a guide.

One of the reasons the firefox folks didn't want to implement it actually
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701324

giving users an option to save their sort in GUI with a tickbox 'remember sort'
would be great too. It seems not even google has thought of that.

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