From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Curious as to message in echo area Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 02:51:07 -0400 Message-ID: <874li0bnac.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: <824eaa02-680a-7299-fb15-ccfba40b91c1@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43990) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUo0a-0007oQ-40 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 02:51:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUo0V-0000C2-7J for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 02:51:24 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=40843 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUo0U-0000BE-Vl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 02:51:19 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fUnyK-00051W-O7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 08:49:04 +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" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Charles Millar writes: > Hello, > > I have always concerned myself that a table column formula returns what is expected.and is correct. > > However I never paid attention to the echo area and I just noticed that it displays the following message > > "cells in region copied, use M-x org-table-paste-rectangle to paste them in a table" > > when I C-c C-c on the formula in the following table > > | 1 | > | 2 | > | 3 | > |   | > #+tblfm: @>$>=vsum(@1..@>>) > > The correct result is returned. > > Have I been ignoring something for the past several years, i.e. has the above message always been displayed? > No, it was added recently: ,---- | $ git blame -L 1868,1870 -- org-table.el | 5c8cb1e733 (Bastien 2018-04-28 12:52:20 +0200 1868) (setq org-table-clip (nreverse region)) | 5c8cb1e733 (Bastien 2018-04-28 12:52:20 +0200 1869) (message (substitute-command-keys "Cells in the region copied, use \\[org-table-paste-rectangle] to paste them in a table.")))) | fe939ecb95 (Carsten Dominik 2008-03-22 16:52:18 +0100 1870) | $ git show 5c8cb1e733 | commit 5c8cb1e7332a9fd8ba71cd0a5fe7bdf5d19d09fd | Author: Bastien | Date: Sat Apr 28 12:52:20 2018 +0200 | | Add messages for `org-table-copy-region' and `org-copy-visible' | | * lisp/org-table.el (org-table-copy-region): | * lisp/org.el (org-copy-visible): Add a message. `---- > Just wondering. > > Charlie Millar > >   > -- Nick "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler