From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de>
Subject: Re: Syntax Proposal: Multi-line Table Cells/Text Wrapping
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:54:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s6f5ui5.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tup58n0h.fsf@gmail.com> (Tim Cross's message of "Sun, 21 Mar 2021 09:06:53 +1100")
On Sunday, 21 Mar 2021 at 09:06, Tim Cross wrote:
> However, often now, I'm presented with a spreadsheet (or workbook)
> with not a single calculation or cell formula -it is just about
> formatting.
Exactly. And this is why I am not happy about org being modified to
enable this. Make the path of least resistance the most attractive:
> In many ways, workbooks are being treated like a poor persons slow
> inefficient database with a really poor interface.
And also why I suggested that it would be good to have some type of
database functionality in org. Well, we do already in the form of
properties. I use these, with column view, all the time, but maybe we
need to think about how such are exported and encourage its use?
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: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.4.4-254-g37749c
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-22 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-17 20:29 Syntax Proposal: Multi-line Table Cells/Text Wrapping Atlas Cove
2021-03-17 21:02 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2021-03-17 22:07 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-18 13:38 ` Atlas Cove
2021-03-18 14:04 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2021-03-18 15:15 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-18 14:19 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-03-18 14:26 ` Timothy
2021-03-18 14:31 ` Atlas Cove
2021-03-18 21:58 ` Tim Cross
2021-03-18 22:41 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19 8:08 ` tomas
2021-03-19 8:44 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19 8:53 ` tomas
2021-03-19 9:22 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19 10:14 ` tomas
2021-03-19 10:53 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19 11:08 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19 13:43 ` tomas
2021-03-19 15:07 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-20 22:49 ` Samuel Wales
2021-03-21 8:43 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19 2:27 ` Timothy
2021-03-19 3:50 ` Tim Cross
2021-03-19 4:02 ` Timothy
2021-03-19 13:33 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-03-19 21:33 ` Tim Cross
2021-03-20 9:19 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-03-20 10:40 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-20 13:41 ` Andreas Eder
2021-03-20 22:06 ` Tim Cross
2021-03-22 10:54 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2021-04-01 6:15 ` Tom Gillespie
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