odd table behavior

odd table behavior

[David Ellis]

I haven't used tables much so please forgive me if this is a dumb question.

I thought if I typed the following:

|this|is|a|test|
|will tables work?|

and I pressed the enter key with the cursor at the end of the second
line, the tables would reformat. This doesn't seem to be working
anymore for me. If I press the <TAB> key that reformats.

I am using GNU Emacs 23.1.1on Windows with org version 6.33f.

I also noticed that if I type |- at the beginning of a line and then
hit return, it remains |-. If I press <TAB>, it works correctly.

First of all, am I correct that return should reformat. If so, what
should I check to try to fix this.

Thanks,

Dave

Re: odd table behavior

[Manish]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:33 PM, David Ellis wrote:
> I haven't used tables much so please forgive me if this is a dumb question.
>
> I thought if I typed the following:
>
> |this|is|a|test|
> |will tables work?|
>
> and I pressed the enter key with the cursor at the end of the second
> line, the tables would reformat. This doesn't seem to be working
> anymore for me. If I press the <TAB> key that reformats.
>
> I am using GNU Emacs 23.1.1on Windows with org version 6.33f.
>
> I also noticed that if I type |- at the beginning of a line and then
> hit return, it remains |-. If I press <TAB>, it works correctly.
>
> First of all, am I correct that return should reformat.

I don't think so.  I don't recall tables ever functioning that way.
Did they behave this way earlier?

> If so, what should I check to try to fix this.

May be you can rebind org-cycle to another key if TAB is inconvenient,
say C-j or something?  But I guess that is not what you need.

-- 
Manish

Re: odd table behavior

[Chris Randle]

Hi David

David Ellis wrote:
> I thought if I typed the following:
 >
> |this|is|a|test|
> |will tables work?|
> 
> and I pressed the enter key with the cursor at the end of the second
> line, the tables would reformat. This doesn't seem to be working
> anymore for me. If I press the <TAB> key that reformats.

The table will reformat if you press the enter key at the end of the 
line (after "work?") without typing the closing bar "|".

Pressing enter *inside* any cell will reformat the table and move down 
to the next cell, but not if you're outside of the grid.

Also, C-c C-c anywhere within the table block (even if outside of the 
grid, as in your example) will reformat, keeping the cursor in its 
current position.

-- 
Chris Randle

Re: odd table behavior

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jan 14, 2010, at 5:03 PM, David Ellis wrote:

> I haven't used tables much so please forgive me if this is a dumb  
> question.
>
> I thought if I typed the following:
>
> |this|is|a|test|
> |will tables work?|
>
> and I pressed the enter key with the cursor at the end of the second
> line, the tables would reformat. This doesn't seem to be working
> anymore for me. If I press the <TAB> key that reformats.

This is a special exception with the ENTER key.  At the end
of a line in a table it always makes a new line, because this
is pretty much the only way to split a table into two, for example.

Manish and Chris have already explained everything else.

- Carsten


>
> I am using GNU Emacs 23.1.1on Windows with org version 6.33f.
>
> I also noticed that if I type |- at the beginning of a line and then
> hit return, it remains |-. If I press <TAB>, it works correctly.
>
> First of all, am I correct that return should reformat. If so, what
> should I check to try to fix this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
>
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