Provide block (as opposed to row based) copy/paste/cut

[ogt]

I'm offering $60.00 on oDesk for someone to do this task: https://www.odesk.com/jobs/~01307bdb63e2197adf

Today in order to use anything that you draw with the boxchareditor you need to select with the mouse the area and then copy it. The problem with this approach is that the area selected is the corresponding html rows ... while often the area that you want to copy is defined based on a rectange .. similar to drawing editors.
So it would be nice to allow a similar functionality.
Now given that

1. actual copying into the clipboard is non-obvious
2. creating anything that provides a wysiwyg interface for the selection process is non-obvious

the simplest implementation for this would be to add a current col, row display so as the user can see the current row and column of the cursor
and then add a
[select area]
from : [column] [row]
to : [column] [row]

which when pressed it will popup a text dialog box with all the enclosed from -> to pasted in it and selected.

[column] and [row] are text input boxes that display in grayed text column and row to explain what the user needs to input (the text disappear on click)

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Budget : $60
Skills : node.js javascript