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feat: Option-Drag to duplicate cells like Figma

Open antimatter15 opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

One of my favorite features of Figma/Sketch/Illustrator are being able to hold down the option key and drag to copy/duplicate artboards and objects. It would be great if I could do the same in Quadratic for cell ranges.

antimatter15 avatar Apr 06 '23 01:04 antimatter15

Can you elaborate on how you think this might be useful in a spreadsheet environment? Very interesting suggestion!

waveminded avatar Apr 11 '23 18:04 waveminded

Let's say you're building out a model and then want to explore a variant which models out some weird scenario- you could try to do it in place and then undo, but you'd be worried about overwriting your original- you could save a new copy but then you can't easily compare things side by side and then you end up cluttering your file system.

antimatter15 avatar Apr 11 '23 19:04 antimatter15

Noting from a duplicate issue I created:

A common computing interaction is to click and select an item and then option + drag to create a duplicate. You can do this in many tools today, including:

  • Figma: option + drag to duplicate objects
  • Powerpoint: option + drag to duplicate content/frames
  • Finder (macos): option + drag to duplicate files

Perhaps Quadratic should support this for option + dragging cells or a selection of cells.

jimniels avatar May 11 '23 20:05 jimniels