From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Paul Stansell <paulstansell@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Named columns in org tables [9.7-pre (release_9.6.9-797-g4d0f89]
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 10:09:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkddjs88.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMJKaZw_MrxWkBG-5AsLuOPZRqXojjE8D7TVDGJW+jztYshXWg@mail.gmail.com>
Paul Stansell <paulstansell@gmail.com> writes:
> On this page https://orgmode.org/manual/Advanced-features.html
> it says
> - '!' :: The fields in this line define names for the columns, so that
> you may refer to a column as '$Tot' instead of '$6'.
>
> However, when I experimented with this I found that the first of the
> following two tables works (i.e. the empty cells are filled in
> correctly), but the second doesn't (the only difference is the
> replacement of $4 with $c3 in the second table):
> ...
> Is this a bug?
In the earlier section https://orgmode.org/manual/Column-formulas.html,
we do explain this caveat:
"The left-hand side of a column formula can not be the name of column,
it must be the numeric column reference or ‘$>’."
Thus, I see no reason to amend the manual. (And I hope that we will
remove this restriction after
https://list.orgmode.org/877cqwbpa2.fsf@runbox.com is merged)
--
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-26 22:46 Named columns in org tables [9.7-pre (release_9.6.9-797-g4d0f89] Paul Stansell
2023-09-27 12:10 ` Bruno Barbier
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2023-09-27 14:38 ` Fwd: " Paul Stansell
2023-09-27 14:40 ` Paul Stansell
2023-09-27 15:53 ` Bruno Barbier
2023-09-27 15:44 ` Fwd: " Bruno Barbier
2023-10-05 10:09 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
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