From: "Eddward DeVilla" <eddward@gmail.com>
To: Michael <wuolong@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Table questions
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:28:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b71b18520612191428w794324f1qea27d99407af034d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1x3b7bbzco.fsf@bass.biostat.umn.edu>
On 12/19/06, Michael <wuolong@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 Dec 2006, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
> > On Dec 14, 2006, at 17:19, Michael wrote:
> > You cannot, at least currently. I am not sure how well this would
> > work, because the table editor makes it very easy to swap rows, columns,
> > to add and delete columns, and such references would become invalid
> > unless one would carefully track these changes.
>
> I agree that you probably don't want to exactly replace the full power of
> Excel. But this simple feature makes it possible to keep track of simple
> data. I won't mind having to redo the formula after row swapping etc.,
> which I think won't happen so often for a given table anyway.
I know I use column swapping a lot. I haven't got formulas down yet,
but if I where to use them in a table where I'm liable to column swap,
I'd probably use named columns. (That's supported, right?) Row
swapping would be trickier, but I don't do that much unless I'm
sorting based on a field, and if I'm sorting, I don't think I'd do
much more than ask for "$named_column one row up".
The ability to ask for a named column in a row relative to the current
one might be reasonably safe without having to change formulas.
Swapping rows could still bite the user if he didn't plan things out
right.
Edd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-19 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-14 16:19 Table questions Michael
2006-12-15 16:08 ` Eddward DeVilla
2006-12-15 18:15 ` Michael
2006-12-18 9:39 ` Carsten Dominik
2006-12-18 9:29 ` Carsten Dominik
2006-12-19 16:54 ` Michael
2006-12-19 22:28 ` Eddward DeVilla [this message]
2006-12-19 23:25 ` Carsten Dominik
2006-12-19 23:20 ` Carsten Dominik
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