From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Randomcoder <randomcoder1@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [proposal] enhancement of Org-Mode tables and related features
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:56:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738531xmj.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150317143703.GA14053@xw> (Randomcoder's message of "Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:37:03 +0200")
Hello,
Randomcoder <randomcoder1@gmail.com> writes:
> 1) Org-Mode tables currently do not have an easy way to format each
> cell individually. For regular text, I can select a region and do M-x
> fill-paragraph and that works fine, but for Org-Mode tables, I cannot
> do that. Yes, I know about M-x org-table-wrap-region , I have tried to
> use it for a few hours, read the manuals, read pages that talked about
> it and I was unable to get it working.
>
> 2) As a user, I'd also really appreciate M-x RET to work better.
M-x RET ?
> Currently if I go somewhere on a line and run that, the text until
> the end of that line is deleted and prepended to the start of the next
> line. So, by doing that, I solved the length of the text on the current
> line, but now I moved the problem to the next line, where the text is
> again longer than it should be.
>
> 3) I've used C-c ` a few times and tried to make sense of it. As far
> as I can tell it only works for one line.
> For me personally, in order for C-c ` to be useful, I would expect
> it to work on the entire table cell, not just one line in the table
> cell.
Table cells are at most one line long, there is no such thing as
a multi-line table cell in Org.
Think of Org tables as a spreadsheet more than a regular table.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
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