Greetings, <div><br></div><div>First and foremost, I must say I&#39;m a new Org-mode user... as well as a new emacs user... and have only limited experience with lisp. </div><div><br></div><div>I&#39;m using a table in org-mode as a database, from which I retrieve information as needed from other tables. </div>
<div>This database stores multiples components with names starting by numbers and with the character &quot;-&quot; in them. For example: &quot;10K-AN-D8&quot;.</div><div>I want to be able to refer to its column with $10K-AN-D8. Yet, this is impossible at the moment. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I&#39;ve looked in org-table.el and found, at line 2038:</div><div><br></div><div>(if (string-match &quot;^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$&quot; name)</div><div><br></div><div>which, once replaced by this:</div>
<div><br></div><div>(if (string-match &quot;^[-_a-zA-Z0-9]*$&quot; name)</div><div><br></div><div>Provides me with the ability to name (and refer) columns in any way I want. </div><div><br></div><div><div>However, I&#39;m reluctant to use this feature; surely there was a reason for this limitation.</div>
</div><div>Could someone point it out for me?</div><div><br></div><div>If there&#39;s no reason not to name columns as we want, perhaps it could be modified in future versions?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much in advance!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Christian</div>