From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Alex Bochannek <alexb@juniper.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Org-mode usage and concept mapping.
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:21:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7449a61b31b9cda26a9074e7ba81ad25@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uejuj12oi.fsf@juniper.net>
On Sep 11, 2006, at 5:51, Alex Bochannek wrote:
>> 3. tables (org-mode frees me from having to use a "real" spreadsheet;
>> what a relief)
>
> Example 2 is what I think a lot (most?) people use Org-mode for. The
> tables I totally forgot about when I wrote my last email, but I have
> used them as well when trying to document some problems. I always
> wondered, tables seem like a bit of feature creep to me. They are very
> useful and I am sure Carsten implemented them for a reason, but with
> SES and Calc, I wonder if they aren't acquiring too much in terms of
> spreadsheet functionality.
:-) I have to comment on this. I would easily plead guilty for
feature creep as far as the "advanced calculation features" (manual
section 3.3.4) are concerned. These I implemented mostly because it
was fun and a challenge to do so. (I myself certainly do use a lot the
simple calculation features, the ones that just use one formula for
each column, but for complicated tables also I use spreadsheets (not
SES, though.))
However, the basic table support is a completely different story, and
for me is an essential and critical feature of Org-mode. Tables are
the main reason why I use Org-mode as my default major mode in emacs -
fundamental and text mode I actually never use anymore, because I want
to have the table support to easily write columns of date, arrange
things nicely and quickly.
- Carsten
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Carsten Dominik
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Universiteit van Amsterdam
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-12 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-10 7:15 [Orgmode] Org-mode usage and concept mapping Alex Bochannek
2006-09-10 12:57 ` David O'Toole
2006-09-11 3:51 ` Alex Bochannek
2006-09-12 9:21 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
[not found] ` <b71b18520609120727r215f2979me75a33e8f7e4d740@mail.gmail.com>
2006-09-13 15:39 ` Carsten Dominik
2006-09-16 0:51 ` Alex Bochannek
2006-09-12 9:35 ` [Orgmode] " Carsten Dominik
2006-09-10 19:01 ` Christopher Kuettner
2006-09-11 11:54 ` chris
2006-09-16 0:48 ` Alex Bochannek
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