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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Robert Klein <roklein@roklein.de>
Subject: Re: BUG: org-table: table option “:missing” not working (in ob-gnuplot.el)
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:56:49 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dexe6ta.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6jteiao.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>

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Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> I'm not sure. I wrote this some years ago. I guess the rationale at that
> time was that it didn't feel useful to apply a format to an empty cell.
> For example, if you use `:fmt "$%s$"', I assume you wouldn't want to get
> "$$" in otherwise empty cells.

Also makes sense.

At this point, third-party code is likely to rely on the existing logic,
so I do not see any reason to insist on changing org-table.

To avoid confusion, can we change the docstring explicitly saying that
empty cells are ignored? (see the attached)

Best,
Ihor


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From 60365a164147dfc71f0047661c143b54064a459b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-Id: <60365a164147dfc71f0047661c143b54064a459b.1633060596.git.yantar92@gmail.com>
From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 11:40:54 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] orgtbl-to-generic: Mention that :fmt is ignored for empty
 cells

* lisp/org-table.el (orgtbl-to-generic): Amend docstring mentioning
that :fmt is ignored for empty table cells.
---
 lisp/org-table.el | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lisp/org-table.el b/lisp/org-table.el
index 89c57fb06..3fed15054 100644
--- a/lisp/org-table.el
+++ b/lisp/org-table.el
@@ -5649,6 +5649,9 @@ (defun orgtbl-to-generic (table params)
 
     (:fmt (2 \"$%s$\" 4 (lambda (c) (format \"$%s$\" c))))
 
+  The format is ignored for empty fields.  Use :raw t with non-nil
+  :backend option to force formatting empty fields.
+
 :hlstart :hllstart :hlend :hllend :hsep :hlfmt :hllfmt :hfmt
 
  Same as above, specific for the header lines in the table.
-- 
2.32.0


  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-01  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-17 19:13 BUG: org-table: table option “:missing” not working (in ob-gnuplot.el) Robert Klein
2021-09-30 13:03 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-09-30 23:48   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-10-01  3:56     ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2021-10-01  7:47       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-10-01  9:15         ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-01  3:50   ` Ihor Radchenko

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