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/
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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:[~2021-03-19 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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