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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Syntax Proposal: Multi-line Table Cells/Text Wrapping
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:33:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im5n9sjw.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czvw85ym.fsf@gmail.com> (Tim Cross's message of "Fri, 19 Mar 2021 08:58:14 +1100")

On Friday, 19 Mar 2021 at 08:58, Tim Cross wrote:
> I am a little concerned about the expansion and addition of features in
> org mode when there seems to already be a challenge with respect to
> maintenance and bug fixing. Personally, I would prefer an org mode which
> is consistent and reliable over one with large numbers of features that
> is less stable and slower.

+1 on this.

With respect to the topic at hand, I believe it's the result of the same
tendency that Excel users have of using spreadsheets (aka tables) for
everything, something I hate when I'm given some Excel sheet that I need
to modify and where entries are huge paragraphs.  The UI in Excel is
horrible for these types of tables.  I would hate to see org go in the
same direction.

In many cases, I believe that a simple text based database format would
be more appropriate.  I wonder if the time would be better spent
providing native support for GNU recutils [1] in org instead.  It could
even have a table like export...

Just my 2¢.  Ignore as you see fit!

eric

Footnotes:
[1]  https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/

-- 
: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.4.4-254-g37749c


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-19 13:42 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 [this message]
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
2021-04-01  6:15       ` Tom Gillespie

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