From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: thanks Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:37:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4060.1313606243@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48483) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtkzY-0007zx-BY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:37:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtkzW-0006Js-71 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:37:28 -0400 Received: from g6t0187.atlanta.hp.com ([15.193.32.64]:45248) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtkzW-0006Jd-1Q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:37:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from "Patrick O'Neill" of "Tue\, 16 Aug 2011 13\:11\:21 EDT." 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: Patrick O'Neill , Bernt Hansen Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Patrick O'Neill wrote: > I just wanted to give a quick word of thanks to Bernt Hansen and > everyone else answering questions on the emacs-orgmode list.=C2=A0 Since > the mailing list is publicly archived, answered questions can remain > useful to others long after the original respondents have probably > forgotten about them.=C2=A0 This answer > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2008-08/msg00057.html) > from 2008 was very useful to me and no doubt to others as well. >=20 Amen to that! But also thanks for pointing out those solutions - I either missed them the first time around or I forgot about them - probably the latter, but I cannot remember :-) : I took a look, was entirely mystified, tried them out, and I think I understand the last two (after spending some time with the formula debugger - and there might be some documentation lacunae that need to be filled there), but the first solution gives me errors and I have no idea what it is trying to do or how it goes about it: Bernt (or somebody else - I'm not picky), can you please provide an explanation? Does it still work? If so, how? Thanks, Nick For reference: (See the link provided by Patrick for details on the others: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2008-08/msg00055.html) The problem (raised by Daniel Sinder) is to automatically number the rows of a table and Bernt's first solution goes like this (this is my attempt to replicate it, hence the errors - in the post, the row numbers are correct): * one | Row | Data Column 1 | Data Column 2 | |--------+----------------+---------------------| | #ERROR | some data | more data | | #ERROR | some more data | even more data | |--------+----------------+---------------------| | #ERROR | and more | that's all | | #ERROR | still more | yup, you guessed it | |--------+----------------+---------------------| #+TBLFM: $1=3Dfind(@address@hidden,$2) ?!?!