From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: =?us-ascii?Q?=3D=3FISO-8859-1=3FQ=3FAndr=3DE1s=5FMajor=3F=3D?=
<andras.g.major@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Bug: named columns in tables not working if name contains "_"
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:49:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21E3246E-EA8B-4361-8420-56DD06C830ED@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13154.1314109925@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org>
On Aug 23, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 23, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
>>
>>> András Major <andras.g.major@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Yet another one I just stumbled across: if I create a table and use
>>>> "!" in the first column to assign names to the columns, I can only
>>>> reference those columns by name in #+TBLFM: if the names don't contain
>>>> a "_" character. This isn't mentioned in the docs and shouldn't be
>>>> so, IMHO. I haven't checked for other common characters that are
>>>> prohibited, but the "_" bites me quite a bit.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Try adding an underscore to the regexp on line 2179 of org-table.el -
>>> something like this (untested):
>>>
>>> ...
>>> (if (string-match "^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*$" name)
>>> (push (cons name (int-to-string cnt)) org-table-column-names))))
>>>
>>>
>>> The only characters permitted are alphanumerics. That can probably be
>>> easily relaxed.
>>
>> Hi Nick, I don't think it can be easily relaxed. Many other characters are
>> operators in Calc and would lead to confusion.
>>
>
> So add more syntax: formulas can use {this+is-a*/strange\@name}.
>
> OK, ok - just kidding.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
> PS. This is a paraphrase of the indirection principle: Any problem can
> be solved by adding yet another layer of syntax...
:) Yes, true!
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-23 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-23 13:20 Bug: named columns in tables not working if name contains "_" András Major
2011-08-23 13:53 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-23 13:58 ` Bug: named columns in tables not working if name contains András Major
2011-08-23 14:34 ` Bastien
2011-08-23 14:08 ` Bug: named columns in tables not working if name contains "_" Carsten Dominik
2011-08-23 14:32 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-23 14:49 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2011-08-23 16:20 ` Bastien
2011-08-23 16:47 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-08-23 18:29 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-08-23 18:54 ` Bastien
2011-08-24 20:15 ` Michael Brand
2011-08-24 20:39 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-23 14:35 ` Bastien
2011-08-23 16:24 ` Achim Gratz
2011-08-24 20:32 ` Michael Brand
2011-08-24 20:46 ` Nick Dokos
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