emacs-orgmode@gnu.org archives
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: David Ellis <ddellis914@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: odd table behavior
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:54:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <04ED909D-DFD8-405A-8C50-E5E8156C9F07@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6dffa35e1001140803m9aa175eoe72990cc126ecbae@mail.gmail.com>


On Jan 14, 2010, at 5:03 PM, David Ellis wrote:

> I haven't used tables much so please forgive me if this is a dumb  
> question.
>
> I thought if I typed the following:
>
> |this|is|a|test|
> |will tables work?|
>
> and I pressed the enter key with the cursor at the end of the second
> line, the tables would reformat. This doesn't seem to be working
> anymore for me. If I press the <TAB> key that reformats.

This is a special exception with the ENTER key.  At the end
of a line in a table it always makes a new line, because this
is pretty much the only way to split a table into two, for example.

Manish and Chris have already explained everything else.

- Carsten


>
> I am using GNU Emacs 23.1.1on Windows with org version 6.33f.
>
> I also noticed that if I type |- at the beginning of a line and then
> hit return, it remains |-. If I press <TAB>, it works correctly.
>
> First of all, am I correct that return should reformat. If so, what
> should I check to try to fix this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode

- Carsten

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-15  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-14 16:03 odd table behavior David Ellis
2010-01-14 17:03 ` Manish
2010-01-14 22:33 ` Chris Randle
2010-01-15  5:54 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.orgmode.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=04ED909D-DFD8-405A-8C50-E5E8156C9F07@gmail.com \
    --to=carsten.dominik@gmail.com \
    --cc=ddellis914@gmail.com \
    --cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).