Re: Bug: Org Table: Field formulas with hline-address on right-hand side don't work anymore [7.8.09]

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On 10.5.2012, at 09:15, Tobias wrote:

> First I have to apologize for posting the bug report twice. The first report has
> been sent from my company. I thought that this bug-report does not make it to
> the list because the e-mail address at my company is not subscribed to the list.
> Therefore, I subscribed with my private e-mail address and sent the bug report
> once more.
> 
> Now, some digging about the bug. I have investigated org-table-recalculate and
> the functions called therein.
> 
> The only place where @II is handled correctly is:
> org-table-get-descriptor-line
> This function is only called within:
> org-table-get-range
> This function is called at the end of:
> org-table-expand-lhs-ranges
> But at the beginning of this function the cond condition
> (string-match "^@-?[-+I0-9]+\\$-?[0-9]+$" lhs)
> already filteres out this case. The field descriptor is not regarded as a range
> but as a fixed field.
> I changed
> (string-match "^@-?[-+I0-9]+\\$-?[0-9]+$" lhs)
> into
> (string-match "^@-?[-+0-9]+\\$-?[0-9]+$" lhs)
> without the I in the first character set. This seems to fix the bug. But I am
> not sure about the side effects.


On the other hand (referring to my message in this thread just a few minutes ago) this analysis here is correct and making the change Tobias is proposing probably would work without side effects.  

So I step back from my earlier post and I applied the change Tobias was proposing.

- Carsten