Re: Using orgtbl-mode with markdown: hfmt1

[Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>]

On Sep 12, 2017, at 16:07, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017, 9:56 AM Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
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> Works perfectly.  But it would be nice not to have to apply this patch each time I update.
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> Would it be possible to make hfmt1 configurable?
> (Preferably, using a buffer-local variable so I don’t have to break tables in org-mode proper?)
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> I use a different approach to do the same thing using ox-gfm (based on a SO solution). Look for orgtbl-to-gfm function here[1] and also my  notes at the end of that file.
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> [1]: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/.emacs.d/blob/master/setup-files/setup-markdown.el
> -- 
> Kaushal Modi
> 

I am aware of a number of these workarounds.
The specific one you are proposing does not work for me as the markdown tables are in collaboratively edited documents and I can’t get the other authors to do any special dance around the tables; orgtbl-mode has to just work.

Besides, a 83-line workaround for what can be done seamlessly by changing one line of code?

(Yes, it would be nice to also preserve the column alignments, but we already have a solution that gets around that limitation.)

Grüße, Carsten