On 25/11/2020 05:37, Kyle Meyer wrote: > Daniele Nicolodi writes: > >> Hello, >> >> I always found the description of Lisp forms in Org table formulas not >> extremely clear, especially in regard to the use of mode flags. The >> attached patch tries to clarify the manual a bit. > > Thanks. Thank you for the review, Kyle. An updated patch is attached. >> Would it be worth to mention org-sbe in the same section of the manual? > > Yeah, it looks like there's no mention of org-sbe in the manual, so I > think so (as a separate patch). After playing a bit with org-sbe, I came to the conclusion that it is broken beyond repair, at least without breaking it for the people that managed to make it work for them. I think that adding mention of it in the manual and explain all the quirks of the macro is much more work than replace it with something better. I tried to write a better macro, please have a look here: https://orgmode.org/list/d429d29b-42fa-7d7b-6f3a-9fe692fd6dc7@grinta.net/ and the parent message for an explanation of what I think is broken in org-sbe. Would you support adding org-sbx (for a lack of a better name) to ob-table.el and mention it in the manual instead of org-sbe? I would not go as far as deprecating org-sbe, just yet, but maybe soon... Cheers, Dan