From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcin Borkowski Subject: org-table-copy-down feature request Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:32:25 +0100 Message-ID: <20140125123225.0660fc0a@aga-netbook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60165) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W71TY-0001Oa-Qy for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 06:32:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W71TT-0006r3-8x for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 06:32:36 -0500 Received: from msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl ([2001:808:114:2::50]:33515) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W71TT-0006pf-2P for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 06:32:31 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1BA0663A0 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:32:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZWPoaNbJTx8L for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:32:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from aga-netbook (101-138.echostar.pl [213.156.101.138]) by msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B9C1D6639E for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:32:27 +0100 (CET) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Org-mode mailing list Hi Org Devs and Users, at present, the only reasonable values of org-table-copy-increment are nil or non-nil. How about enabling to use it as an increment value? This would be very useful in the following case: I want to make a table with dates for subsequent classes (and table is better than headlines for me, since for each class I put - among others - the number of problems solved during that class, so that I can use the spreadsheet to compute the total and average-per-hour numbers; useful for planning for the remainder of the semester;)). It would be great to set org-table-copy-increment to 7 so that I get timestamps increased by one week. Another change which would help me might be to have a special value like 'arithmetic, so that the increment could be computed from /this and previous/ entries. (This might be even better, mimicking Excel's/LibreOffice's functionality, which is a bit broken in those applications, since it seems to require a mouse, but is very useful nonetheless.) Another, related problem I have with org-table-copy-down is that it overwrites rows. It might be better for it to insert a new row /if/ the entry in the next row is nonempty. What do you think? -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University