From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: sebastian.miele@gmail.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Typo in Org Manual
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 04:45:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zfi851k.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eeu8kzyj.fsf@gmail.com>
Sebastian Miele <sebastian.miele@gmail.com> writes:
> In an example for Org table range references it says:
>
> ‘@2$1..@4$3’ six fields between these two fields (same as ‘A2..C4’)
Oh, that mistake has been around for a long time.
> However, it are nine fields instead of six.
If we were to simply replace "six" with "nine", I think the description
could still be confusing because it's ambiguous whether "between"
includes the ends. (I would tend to read the above description as
exclusive.)
How about "nine fields between and including these two fields"? Any
other suggestions?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-06 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-04 13:32 Typo in Org Manual Sebastian Miele
2020-03-06 4:45 ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
2020-03-06 9:43 ` Sebastian Miele
2020-03-06 9:54 ` Sebastian Miele
2020-03-06 18:04 ` Nick Dokos
2020-03-07 4:14 ` Kyle Meyer
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