* can't assign to hline relative reference:
@ 2015-06-26 12:12 Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2015-06-26 12:22 ` Nicolas Goaziou
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Marijn Schouten (hkBst) @ 2015-06-26 12:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
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Dear list,
Consider the following small org table:
| | grade | weight | weighed grade |
|-------+-------+--------+---------------|
| | 5 | 10 | 50 |
|-------+-------+--------+---------------|
| total | | | 0 |
#+TBLFM: @II$2=vsum(@I$2..@II-1$2)::$4=$2*$3
In the version of org (8.2.10) distributed with emacs 24.5, evaluating this table does not produces the expected result of column 2 being summed to a total of 5. Instead depending on point both the second and first columns will get an additional 5.
Through irc I found someone who tested this with the latest development version as of now and it instead produces the error: can't assign to hline relative reference. That also does not seem like the right behavior to me.
Could someone shed some light on the situation?
Marijn
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* Re: can't assign to hline relative reference:
2015-06-26 12:12 can't assign to hline relative reference: Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
@ 2015-06-26 12:22 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-06-26 13:00 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Goaziou @ 2015-06-26 12:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marijn Schouten (hkBst); +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Hello,
"Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkbst@gentoo.org> writes:
> Through irc I found someone who tested this with the latest
> development version as of now and it instead produces the error: can't
> assign to hline relative reference. That also does not seem like the
> right behavior to me.
>
> Could someone shed some light on the situation?
See <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/77257>.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
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* Re: can't assign to hline relative reference:
2015-06-26 12:22 ` Nicolas Goaziou
@ 2015-06-26 13:00 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2015-07-02 11:56 ` Nicolas Goaziou
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Marijn Schouten (hkBst) @ 2015-06-26 13:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
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On 26-06-15 14:22, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkbst@gentoo.org> writes:
>
>> Through irc I found someone who tested this with the latest
>> development version as of now and it instead produces the error: can't
>> assign to hline relative reference. That also does not seem like the
>> right behavior to me.
>>
>> Could someone shed some light on the situation?
>
> See <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/77257>.
>
> Regards,
Thanks Nicolas for that link.
It says that there is a known issue with hline references on the left side of table formulas, but I did not quite understand the details.
There seems to be a proposed fix by interpreting said references as ranges with the same on both sides, for example @II$2 would become @II$2..@II$2 and would then be interpreted properly. Was the issue with this fix that it does not work in all cases?
There also seems to be some counterintuitive use of these references that is useful to some people and included in the tests and fixing the issue would interfere with that use. If I said that right, could someone explain the details of this?
There was a mention that fixing the issue might involve rewriting much of org-table. Is that a concern?
Marijn
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* Re: can't assign to hline relative reference:
2015-06-26 13:00 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
@ 2015-07-02 11:56 ` Nicolas Goaziou
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Goaziou @ 2015-07-02 11:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marijn Schouten (hkBst); +Cc: emacs-orgmode
"Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkbst@gentoo.org> writes:
> It says that there is a known issue with hline references on the left
> side of table formulas, but I did not quite understand the details.
To tell the truth, this is not crystal clear to me either.
> There seems to be a proposed fix by interpreting said references as
> ranges with the same on both sides, for example @II$2 would become
> @II$2..@II$2 and would then be interpreted properly. Was the issue
> with this fix that it does not work in all cases?
A solution properly handling all cases of @I and al. on lhs is welcome.
Meanwhile, I'd rather use a consistent error than provide something that
just partly works.
> There was a mention that fixing the issue might involve rewriting much
> of org-table. Is that a concern?
Not really, as long as invasive changes are covered by tests.
Regards,
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