From: Michael Brand <michael.brand@alumni.ethz.ch>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: new spreadsheet features: field coordinates, multi line TBLFM with comments
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:51:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9CCDB9.6060903@alumni.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24E1A3E6-3F21-432B-801A-56726F002155@gmail.com>
Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> 1) field coordinates:
>> [...]
>> +@subsubheading Field coordinates
>> [...]
>
> That does look reasonable, and I am going to take that patch.
Thank you. Maybe this change of the above would make it clearer:
+@subsubheading Field coordinates in formulas
>> 2) self-edited multi line TBLFM with comments:
>
> Before looking further, I would like to find out if you are aware
> of the existence of the formula editior, invoked the command
> C-c ' (that is C-c followed by the single quote) while the
> cursor is in a table.
>
> The formula editor does not have comments, but otherwise it is more
> powerful than what you propose.
Much more powerful, really great and well designed! Most of all the
highlighting of fields and ranges. I prefer that much over my proposal and
abandon comments inside. I knew the manual heading but since I stuck on the
word `debugging' and _underestimated_ the word `Editing', at least when
already editing in a org-mode buffer, I thought there is no need to read as
long as my formulas work... Not only for this reason but mostly because of
the great value I think it is more than worth mentioning it in the
spreadsheet summary in the manual somehow like this:
======================================================================
--- org.texi.orig.texi Sat Mar 13 15:41:20 2010
+++ org.texi Sun Mar 14 12:39:07 2010
@@ -1931,7 +1931,9 @@ derive fields from other fields. While
implementation is not identical to other spreadsheets. For example,
Org knows the concept of a @emph{column formula} that will be
applied to all non-header fields in a column without having to copy the
-formula to each relevant field.
+formula to each relevant field. There is a special formula editor with
+features for highlighting fields in the table corresponding to the
+references at the point in the formula, moving these references by
+arrow keys and a formula debugger.
@menu
* References:: How to refer to another field or range
=====================================================================
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-13 15:27 new spreadsheet features: field coordinates, multi line TBLFM with comments Michael Brand
2010-03-14 10:06 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-03-14 11:51 ` Michael Brand [this message]
2010-03-14 12:13 ` Carsten Dominik
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