[Issue 125595] New: Default text csv/tsv import options

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https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125595

          Issue ID: 125595
        Issue Type: DEFECT
           Summary: Default text csv/tsv import options
           Product: Calc
           Version: 4.1.1
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: editing
          Assignee: issues@openoffice.apache.org
          Reporter: apache@aniljava.com

Problem and Affected users:

Calc presents text import wizard while opening text files such as csv/tsv. The
feature in itself is very meaningful as well as useful for majority of the
users as it allows user to make adjustment on the nature of the data. But for
users with pre-known data and use calc frequently, this becomes one extra step.
Specially when opening several files at once.

Rationalae
1. Most of the time, once the delimeter is changed from the last import, user
just clicks import without any change or observation.
2. Removes one extra step from the workflow
3. Calc remembers the delimiter but does not remember the last encoding used
for empty txt files (For example my system vanilla Ubuntu 14.04 LTS always
shows UTF-16) . Having a default saved allows to override the default encoding
used used as well for txt files used between applications that expects
particular encoding.

Workaround
None

Solution expected
1. Feature (Save as default and do not ask me again)
2. Hack or pointers / guide from some one who know about the import section of
the codebase.

Notes and side effects:
- Two configurable behavior on (Open with from OS) and open from calc. Opening
from calc or import could present with the wizard while opening from os could
take the defaults.
- For .csv MS Excel uses defaults
- Issue 103185, talks about saving defaults but not the removal of wizard
itself.
- Issue 15274, very old request with similar request but it is sidelined with
argument "OOo is an integrated Office, that means you can't have single
Applications and how should the Office decide what should be opened ?". Given
there are not better opensource alternative (Gnumeric exists but is more
useless for workflow with csv), the enhancements are more meaninful.
- unformatted data such as csv/tsv are more useful for cross application
compatibility than formatted ones like odt and xsl.

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         Issue Type|DEFECT                      |ENHANCEMENT

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