Re: [Orgmode] Org-mode usage and concept mapping.

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

On Sep 11, 2006, at 5:51, Alex Bochannek wrote:
>> 3. tables (org-mode frees me from having to use a "real" spreadsheet;
>> what a relief)
>
> Example 2 is what I think a lot (most?) people use Org-mode for. The
> tables I totally forgot about when I wrote my last email, but I have
> used them as well when trying to document some problems. I always
> wondered, tables seem like a bit of feature creep to me. They are very
> useful and I am sure Carsten implemented them for a reason, but with
> SES and Calc, I wonder if they aren't acquiring too much in terms of
> spreadsheet functionality.

:-)  I have to comment on this.  I would easily plead guilty for 
feature creep as far as the "advanced calculation features" (manual 
section 3.3.4) are concerned.  These I implemented mostly because it 
was fun and a challenge to do so.  (I myself certainly do use a lot the 
simple calculation features, the ones that just use one formula for 
each column, but for complicated tables also I use spreadsheets (not 
SES, though.))

However, the basic table support is a completely different story, and 
for me is an essential and critical feature of Org-mode.  Tables are 
the main reason why I use Org-mode as my default major mode in emacs - 
fundamental and text mode I actually never use anymore, because I want 
to have the table support to easily write columns of date, arrange 
things nicely and quickly.

- Carsten



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