How about you can select more than one pattern at a time, and copy and paste the patterns.
Just to get things straight...
You want to copy the entire patterns into memory, so you can paste them in another song right?
yes...
Or optionally the same song (but then you can just write the number again...)
But that is exactly what I meant.
This feature will be especially helpful for this (http://forum.openmpt.org/index.php?topic=1298.0) purpose.
Combining several .IT files into 1.
Dupe topic: http://forum.openmpt.org/index.php?topic=3706.0