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Dragging cell onto a column produces interesting effects

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Reproduce the drag-and-drop behavior described: drag a cell onto a column header and then onto the input field below. Inspect what happens in each target, including the inserted control characters, and determine the intended safe behavior. Done means dropping a cell no longer causes unintended effects or inserts corrupted characters.

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Description

Dragging a cell and dropping it on column header did nothing. But dropping it on the input field below inserted some interesting characters: Xn
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C
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