[sheetjs]

There is one case where I really do appreciate manipulating copy-paste: selecting multiple cells in a table.

Excel ends up populating the plaintext as well as the HTML paste buffers. The plaintext buffer holds TSV output and the HTML buffer holds the full HTML. The HTML is the only way to distinguish between the two cells

    |"foo|bar"|

and the single cell

    |"foo\tbar"| (using some CHAR magic in excel to generate the tab character)

my short spiel: http://blog.sheetjs.com/post/66908170192/the-magic-behind-ex...