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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E1s_Major?= <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 16:08:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EFFD8F2-28DD-458B-9B7C-32187DA966B5@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12806.1314107627@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org>


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.

But amending the docs is certainly a good idea.

Thanks

- Carsten

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-23 14:08 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   ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2011-08-23 14:32     ` Bug: named columns in tables not working if name contains "_" Nick Dokos
2011-08-23 14:49       ` Carsten Dominik
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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