From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Michael Brand <michael.brand@alumni.ethz.ch>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: new spreadsheet features: field coordinates, multi line TBLFM with comments
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:13:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57645FA4-67B9-4CA7-9982-0D535EEA100E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9CCDB9.6060903@alumni.ethz.ch>
On Mar 14, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Michael Brand wrote:
> 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
Done.
>
>
>>> 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.
Thanks.
> 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
> =====================================================================
Applied as well, thank you!
- Carsten
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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
2010-03-14 12:13 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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