On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > On 18.3.2011, at 15:29, Le Wang wrote: > > > The doc-string of `org-table-convert-region' doesn't specifically address > 0 as SEPARATOR, but 0 is an integer. It shouldn't hang in any case. When I > C-g out of the loop, my undo limit was exceeded because the line filled with > hundreds of thousands of empty cells. > > > > I think the correct behavior is to convert region into table using 0 > spaces as a separator -- so each character forms its own column. > > While this might be nice, it is such a border case that, for now, I have > only added an > error message to prevent the converter from going into an infinite loop. > > Or do you have a *really* goo use case for this? > No, I don't have a use case for this. IMO, a reasonable argument should result in some reasonable non-surprising behaviour. We can argue whether 0 is a reasonable argument, though. I'm okay as long as it doesn't hang. > - Carsten > > -- Le