From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Goaziou Subject: Re: [proposal] enhancement of Org-Mode tables and related features Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:56:04 +0100 Message-ID: <8738531xmj.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> References: <20150317143703.GA14053@xw> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXtKd-0006SQ-7J for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:23:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXtKX-0000TK-Fx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:22:59 -0400 Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:c:538::196]:48924) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXtKX-0000TD-B2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:22:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150317143703.GA14053@xw> (Randomcoder's message of "Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:37:03 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Randomcoder Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hello, Randomcoder 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