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* Bug: assignment to named column - not working as expected [9.3.6 (9.3.6-elpa @ ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-9.3.6/)]
@ 2020-02-29 14:39 Lester Longley
  2020-02-29 16:45 ` Lester Longley
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From: Lester Longley @ 2020-02-29 14:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

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Hello,

I'm trying to use named fields.

This works:

| ! | col2 | col3 |
| # | abc  | abc  |
#+TBLFM: $3 = $col2

However, assignment to named field "$col3":

| ! | col2 | col3 |
| # | abc  |  |
#+TBLFM: $col3 = $col2

... results in error "Unknown field: col3".

I was expecting assignment to the named column to work, as per
https://orgmode.org/manual/Advanced-features.html


‘!’

The fields in this line define names for the columns, so that you may refer
to a column as ‘$Tot’ instead of ‘$6’.
‘^’

This row defines names for the fields *above* the row. With such a
definition, any formula in the table may use ‘$m1’ to refer to the value ‘10’.
Also, if you assign a formula to a names field, it is stored as ‘$name = ...
’.

However, the documentation doesn't specifically indicate that assignment to
"$name" should work w/ "!"--it's mentioned only w/ "^" (and works fine for
this case)--so possibly what I'm trying simply isn't supported (i.e., not a
bug).  Please pardon if that's not right expectation.

Thank you for your help.

Regards,
Lester

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.11)
 of 2017-09-15, modified by Debian
Package: Org mode version 9.3.6 (9.3.6-elpa @ ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-9.3.6/)

current state:
==============
(setq
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     org-babel-header-arg-expand)
 org-speed-command-hook '(org-speed-command-activate
 org-babel-speed-command-activate)
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 org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe)
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org-agenda-search-view-always-boolean
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org-rmail-store-link)
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:export org-irc-export)
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:store org-info-store-link)
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org-gnus-store-link)
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)
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