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From: Gavin Downard <gavin.downard@runbox.com>
To: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lisp/org-table.el: Allow named columns on lhs
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 11:33:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tttx9j3d.fsf@runbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f2ddcff-1be1-e0dd-8cd3-f15f35d6393f@gmail.com>


Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:
> When I tried table formulas a couple of years ago I was surprised that it is not
> possible to use column names to specify target cells. At first glance it should
> be a great feature. Have you searched the mailing list archive whether it was
> requested earlier? There are might be reasons why it has not been implemented.
> Org spreadsheets are quite complicated.

Surprisingly, I wasn't able to find much. Generally all I could find
talked about hline references , which are similarly unsupported.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-21 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-19  2:36 [PATCH] lisp/org-table.el: Allow named columns on lhs Gavin Downard
2023-07-19  7:44 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-21 15:15   ` Max Nikulin
2023-07-21 18:33     ` Gavin Downard [this message]
2023-07-22  2:12       ` Max Nikulin
2023-07-22  7:25         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-22 13:16           ` Max Nikulin
2023-07-22 13:25             ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-22 12:45 ` Max Nikulin
2023-07-22 18:21   ` Gavin Downard
2023-07-23  6:50     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-24  3:25       ` Gavin Downard
2023-07-24  7:23         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-24 15:17 ` Max Nikulin
2023-07-24 20:29   ` Gavin Downard
2023-07-25 15:01     ` Max Nikulin
2023-07-26 21:50       ` Gavin Downard
2023-07-27  7:36         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-29  9:58 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-31 14:19   ` Gavin Downard

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