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From: Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: executing org-table TBLFM form changes (resets) language settings
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 10:46:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59222bd6-d62a-23a4-544b-66466bdc3380@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inbphh77.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com>

Am 25.01.2018 um 20:27 schrieb Nick Dokos:
> Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de> writes:
> 
>> All,
>>
>> My current-language-environment is "German".
>> Having an Org table with a TBLFM attached:
>>
>> | IM Startzeit          | IM Endezeit           | Stunden | delta(x,16) | Anm. |
>> |-----------------------+-----------------------+---------+-------------+------|
>> | [2018-01-22 Mo 19:30] | [2018-01-23 Di 14:30] |   19.00 |        3.00 |      |
>> |                       |                       |         |             |      |
>>
>> #+TBLFM: $3=24*(date(<$2>)-date(<$1>)); %.2f::$4=$3-16.0; %.2f
>>
>> entering a new timestamp correctly inserts German dayname abbrevs: ("Do", German for "Thu", English):
>>
>> | IM Startzeit          | IM Endezeit           | Stunden | delta(x,16) | Anm. |
>> |-----------------------+-----------------------+---------+-------------+------|
>> | [2018-01-22 Mo 19:30] | [2018-01-23 Di 14:30] |   19.00 |        3.00 |      |
>> | [2018-01-25 Do 14:19] |                       |         |             |      |
>>
>> #+TBLFM: $3=24*(date(<$2>)-date(<$1>)); %.2f::$4=$3-16.0; %.2f
>>
>> Executing the TBLFM line with C-c C-c changes (resets) the language environment to English.
>>
>> Now inserting a timestamp inserts "Thu" instead of "Do", that is it uses the English day name abbrevs:
>>
>> | IM Startzeit          | IM Endezeit           |      Stunden |  delta(x,16) | Anm. |
>> |-----------------------+-----------------------+--------------+--------------+------|
>> | [2018-01-22 Mo 19:30] | [2018-01-23 Di 14:30] |        19.00 |         3.00 |      |
>> | [2018-01-25 Thu 14:21]|                       |              |              |      |
>>
>> #+TBLFM: $3=24*(date(<$2>)-date(<$1>)); %.2f::$4=$3-16.0; %.2f
>>
>> Believe me it took me some time to find out what action in Emacs changes the whole lang environment.
>>
>> Is that a bug or is there a language setting in the TBLFM form?
>>
>> Thanks for any hint.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rainer
>>
> 
> I can reproduce this if I start emacs like this:
> 
>     emacs -q -l ~/src/minimal/min.org.el /tmp/dates.org &
> 
> set the language environment inside emacs and then do C-c C-c on the TBLFM line
> and try to add another date.
> 
> I cannot reproduce it when invoking emacs like this:
> 
>     LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 emacs -q -l ~/src/minimal/min.org.el /tmp/dates.org
> 
> so it seems you are right that in the first case, something changes the language
> environment.
> 
Hi Nick,

thanks for confirming.
I am running under Windows and cannot apply your environment setting like this.

Does anyboday have a chance to correct the misbehaviour in the TBLFM table code that changes the language settings?
I will not be able to do it on my own.

Thank you.
Regards, Rainer

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-26  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-25 13:30 executing org-table TBLFM form changes (resets) language settings Rainer Stengele
2018-01-25 19:27 ` Nick Dokos
2018-01-26  9:46   ` Rainer Stengele [this message]
2018-01-29  7:49     ` Rainer Stengele
2018-01-30 19:45       ` Rainer Stengele
2018-01-30 21:07         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-01-31  9:45           ` Rainer Stengele
2018-01-31 11:08             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-03-05 14:39               ` Rainer Stengele

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