Re: [Gretl-devel] GUI problem with "save as"

On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote: >> Actually, let me go one step back and ask a basic question: why have the >> variable-selection option at all when the user chooses "save as"? > > You just beat me to the punch! After thinking about it some more, > that's what occurred to me. We're just making life difficult for > ourselves (and potentially confusing to the user) by offering that > option. True. The removal of that intermediate step is a good thing IMO. However, this makes it much harder than it was to create a dataset containing a subset of the variables of an existing one via the GUI. If I'm not mistaken, the only way to achieve this is to delete what you don't want (which may be sometimes annoyingly difficult, if you have lots of saved models) and then save. Maybe we could add a "Save subset" menu entry?