From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Chris Randle <chris@amlog.co.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request for copy cell in tables
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 20:19:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <61A516B0-1CEE-4DCC-A52B-1AD7D88ADA3E@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <115A0D3B78AC446E8935252C269BD0E3@CUBE>
Hi Chris,
both proposals do make sense, and I have implemented them.
- Carsten
On Sep 8, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Chris Randle wrote:
> Hi Carsten
>
> I use the table feature in org-mode daily to keep a log of incoming
> work
> requests. These requests have a 16-digit ID based on date such as the
> first row/column in the example below. Sometimes I want to copy the
> same
> ID to the line below, but S-return gives the result in the second row:
>
> |------------------+----|
> | 2008090910000121 | 10 |
> | -2147483648 | 11 |
> |------------------+----|
>
> This is presumably due to integer overflow.
>
> Secondly, I sometimes want to duplicate the cell which contains a
> simple
> integer such as 10 without it being incremented to 11 (although the
> auto-increment is also very useful). I don't really want to start
> setting org-table-copy-increment one way or the other as I'd use both
> types of copy equally.
>
> Two ideas:
>
> A) Could the table copy feature be altered to do a string-type copy if
> integer arithmetic is overflowing or wrapping round?
>
> And/or
>
> B) Could there be some keystroke to ignore integer increment and just
> treat the number as text? Would 'C-u 0 S-return' do the trick or has
> someone got a more elegant combination? C-S-return might also be a
> candidate, although it currently seems to mimic C-return and call
> (org-insert-heading-after-current).
>
> Thanks for your consideration.
>
> --
> Chris Randle
> Windows XP SP3 - GNU Emacs 22.1.1 - Org-mode 6.06b
>
>
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