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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Michael Brand <michael.brand@alumni.ethz.ch>
Cc: Org-Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Re: Can't import a remote reference to a whole column in orgtbl
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 22:08:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <77A0A719-665A-493B-9FFA-7FC17F7EA485@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BB8E250.8090404@alumni.ethz.ch>

Applied, thanks.

- Carsten

On Apr 4, 2010, at 9:02 PM, Michael Brand wrote:

> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>> but being able to import whole rows/columns
>>> would be incredibly useful.
>> There is actually now a way to do tis - even though it is  
>> inefficient.  To copy column 2 from table FOO into column 3 of the  
>> current table, use
>> #+TBLFM: $3=remote(FOO,@@#$2)
>> This is now possible due to a patch by Michael Brand:
>>    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/22930
>> It works well, but it is inefficient because this formula will
>> parse the FOO table again for each field to be copied.
>
> Very nice use case for `@#'. How about a doc update somehow like this?
>
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> ======================================================================
> --- a/doc/org.texi
> +++ b/doc/org.texi
> @@ -2061,10 +2061,15 @@ see the @samp{E} mode switch below).  If
> For Calc formulas and Lisp formulas @code{@@#} and @code{$#} can be  
> used to
> get the row or column number of the field where the formula result  
> goes.
> The traditional Lisp formula equivalents are @code{org-table-current- 
> dline}
> -and @code{org-table-current-column}.  Example:
> +and @code{org-table-current-column}.  Examples:
>
> @example
> -if(@@# % 2, $#, string(""))      @r{column number on odd lines only}
> +if(@@# % 2, $#, string(""))   @r{column number on odd lines only}
> +$3 = remote(FOO, @@@@#$2)      @r{copy column 2 from table FOO into}
> +                             @r{column 3 of the current  
> table@footnote{Both
> +tables must have the same count of rows.  Inefficient for a large  
> count N of
> +rows with a time complexity of O(N^2) because all rows of the FOO  
> table will
> +be parsed again for each field to be copied.}}
> @end example
>
> @subsubheading Named references
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> ======================================================================

- Carsten

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-04 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-26  0:43 Can't import a remote reference to a whole column in orgtbl Ismael Barros²
2010-02-26  0:54 ` Ismael Barros²
2010-02-26  9:27   ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2010-04-03 17:24     ` Ismael Barros²
2010-04-04  6:47       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-04 19:02         ` Michael Brand
2010-04-04 20:08           ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-04-05  6:11             ` Michael Brand
2010-04-05  6:48               ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-05 18:26                 ` Michael Brand
2010-04-06  5:15                   ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-07 19:55                     ` Michael Brand
2011-11-01 21:14                       ` [Orgmode] " Nick Dokos
2011-11-01 21:23                       ` Nick Dokos

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