import type { HotInstance } from '../core/types';
/**
 * The cell-meta keys that travel with a cell moved by the `moveCells` feature. Shared between the
 * MoveCells plugin (which moves the meta) and the UndoRedo `MoveCellsAction` (which must restore
 * exactly this set — a key added in one place but missed in the other would silently stop being
 * undone). It lives outside both plugins so that neither imports the other — registering just one
 * of them through the tree-shakeable `base.ts` entry must not pull the other in.
 */
export declare const MOVABLE_META_KEYS: ReadonlyArray<string>;
/**
 * A sparse record of one cell's own movable meta: the cell's visual coordinates plus only the
 * movable keys the cell carries as its own properties.
 */
export interface MovableMetaEntry {
    /**
     * The visual row index of the cell.
     */
    row: number;
    /**
     * The visual column index of the cell.
     */
    col: number;
    /**
     * The cell's own movable meta keys and their values.
     */
    meta: Record<string, unknown>;
}
/**
 * Collects the cells of a visual region that carry their own movable meta keys. The result is
 * sparse — cells without any own movable key produce no entry — so a move allocates
 * proportionally to the number of styled cells, not to the range area.
 *
 * @param {HotInstance} hot The Handsontable instance.
 * @param {number} fromRow The visual top row of the region.
 * @param {number} fromCol The visual start column of the region.
 * @param {number} toRow The visual bottom row of the region.
 * @param {number} toCol The visual end column of the region.
 * @returns {MovableMetaEntry[]}
 */
export declare function collectMovableMeta(hot: HotInstance, fromRow: number, fromCol: number, toRow: number, toCol: number): MovableMetaEntry[];