Mathias Bauer wrote:
The problem of this issue: *every* text file is a "delimited" file. It
is (nearly?) impossible to differentiate between a "delimited" and a
"normal" text file. So the result would be that Calc opened nearly every
text file. In this case I think the current default (Writer) overall is
the better one.
Not when the text file is of obvious columnar data. There two main
standards - TAB and CSV. I don't understand that "every" text file is
reasonably delimited.
All the loader has to do is sample the first few lines for '09' tab
chars or "," patterns and hand it off to calc instead of writer.
Better yet, all the loader has to do is to not ignore the preference of
the user that wants a particular file to be loaded by the correct
application. This is a case where the openoffice loader to "too smart".
I can rename a TAB file to be a .XLS extension and Excel detects that
this is obvious columnar data and bring it right in - no user
intervention - bam! Even if I made the text file extension name be
.ODS, .SXC or whatever that the host OS has "associated", the openoffice
loader shouldn't ignore that "junk.ods" was supposed to be loaded by
Calc (by the users explicit purpose of association) but keeps getting
handed off to Writer.
-eric wood
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