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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Kiertscher <D.Kiertscher@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: manipulating org-tables as matrices - operations on org-table in diagonal direction for columns and rows
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 15:47:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ioozutux.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53729B7B.7030505@gmx.de> (Daniel Kiertscher's message of "Wed, 14 May 2014 00:23:55 +0200")

Hi Daniel,

Daniel Kiertscher <D.Kiertscher@gmx.de> writes:

> org-tables already support very helpful operations for manipulating
> the order of rows and columns. But we could implement some operations
> based on the concept of matrices, making org-tables even more usefull
> for drafting ideas using matrix layouts.
> Maybe you are interested in the operations I am suggesting and can
> help me to implement them.
> Maybe you have some questions or suggestions, improving or
> generalising this approach?
> Here are the first sketches of a part of the functions on org-table
> which I am missing for quite a while now.

Those are useful operations, but I doubt each of them is worth a
separate command and a new keybinding.  Because each function is
a combo of two commands that are already quite fast and accessible,
and -- at least for me -- it seems easier to type M-<right> M-<up>
instead of the related keystroke you suggest.

Another approach would be to use this for yourself for a while,
see what are the most useful commands, and see if their keybinding
makes it really worth adding them to the core of Org.

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien

      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-21 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-13 22:23 manipulating org-tables as matrices - operations on org-table in diagonal direction for columns and rows Daniel Kiertscher
2014-05-21 13:47 ` Bastien [this message]

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