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> [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 589 bytes --] 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 [-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --] [-- Attachment #2: 0001-orgtbl-to-generic-Mention-that-fmt-is-ignored-for-em.patch --] [-- Type: text/x-diff, Size: 1018 bytes --] 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
next prev parent 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 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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