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