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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: org-open-line inconsistent treatment of marking characters '#'
 and '*'
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 11:42:21 +0100
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Hello,

Tony E. Bennett <tony.e.bennett@gmail.com> writes:

> org-open-line replicates the table marking character '#' (if present) into
> the new table line but does not do the same for '*'.
>
> Since the semantics of '#' and '*' are so similar I expect them to be
> treated identically when opening a new table line.
>
> Within defun org-table-insert-row, changing this line:
>
>          ;; Fix the first field if necessary
>          (when (string-match "^[ \t]*| *[#$] *|" line)
>
> to:
>
>          ;; Fix the first field if necessary
>          (when (string-match "^[ \t]*| *[#*$] *|" line)
>
> gives the expected behavior.
>
> Can this be fixed?

OK, I applied the change in maint. However, I tend to think we should
not copy any special marker at all, since we don't check if we're in
a special column anyway.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou