Re: thanks

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> Patrick O'Neill <pon2@umbc.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I just wanted to give a quick word of thanks to Bernt Hansen and
> > everyone else answering questions on the emacs-orgmode list.=C2=A0 Since
> > the mailing list is publicly archived, answered questions can remain
> > useful to others long after the original respondents have probably
> > forgotten about them.=C2=A0 This answer
> > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2008-08/msg00057.html)
> > from 2008 was very useful to me and no doubt to others as well.
> >=20
> 
> Amen to that! But also thanks for pointing out those solutions - I
> either missed them the first time around or I forgot about them -
> probably the latter, but I cannot remember :-) : I took a look, was
> entirely mystified, tried them out, and I think I understand the last
> two (after spending some time with the formula debugger - and there
> might be some documentation lacunae that need to be filled there), but
> the first solution gives me errors and I have no idea what it is trying
> to do or how it goes about it: Bernt (or somebody else - I'm not picky),
> can you please provide an explanation? Does it still work? If so, how?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
> 
> For reference: (See the link provided by Patrick for details on the others:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2008-08/msg00055.html)
> 
> The problem (raised by Daniel Sinder) is to automatically
> number the rows of a table and Bernt's first solution goes like this
> (this is my attempt to replicate it, hence the errors - in the post,
> the row numbers are correct):
> 
> 
> * one
> 
>   | Row    | Data Column 1  | Data Column 2       |
>   |--------+----------------+---------------------|
>   | #ERROR | some data      | more data           |
>   | #ERROR | some more data | even more data      |
>   |--------+----------------+---------------------|
>   | #ERROR | and more       | that's all          |
>   | #ERROR | still more     | yup, you guessed it |
>   |--------+----------------+---------------------|
> #+TBLFM: $1=3Dfind(@address@hidden,$2)
> 

Address rewriting by the list/archive manager: the original formula was

#+TBLFM: $1=find(@I$2..@III$2,$2)

Never mind ;-)
Nick

PS. But corruptions like this are a problem if we want to use the
list archives as repositories of knowledge.