interleaving comment between rows of a table?

interleaving comment between rows of a table?

[Greg Minshall]

hi, all.

i don't remember anybody asking about this.

i'd sometimes find it useful to be able to interleave comments -- using
(almost) whatever syntax -- between rows in an org-mode table.
(normally, this would be to provide context/rationale for the subsequent
row(s).)

something like:
----
| column name | another name   |
|-------------+----------------|
# i put this in early
| some data   | some more data |
# this helps with some issue
| a bit more  | on the way     |
----

is there any known way to do this?  some switch, or an exposed regexp?

cheers, Greg

Re: interleaving comment between rows of a table?

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Hi Greg,

Greg Minshall writes:

> i don't remember anybody asking about this.
>
> i'd sometimes find it useful to be able to interleave comments -- using
> (almost) whatever syntax -- between rows in an org-mode table.
> (normally, this would be to provide context/rationale for the subsequent
> row(s).)

I find the annotate package useful for inserting comments and
annotations in "difficult" places. I find annotations in the margin (as
overlays) intrusive, so I have set this variable, so that the
annotations appear only in the echo area and as a tooltip:

(setq annotate-use-echo-area t)

See this screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/koKYL0K.png

Other possible settings for annotate:

(set-face-attribute 'annotate-highlight nil :foreground "chocolate" :background nil :underline nil)

(set-face-attribute 'annotate-highlight-secondary nil :foreground "chocolate" :background nil :underline nil)

(setq annotate-file "path/to/my/annotate/file")

Best regards,

Juan Manuel 

Re: interleaving comment between rows of a table?

[Greg Minshall]

Juan Manuel,

> I find the annotate package useful for inserting comments and
> annotations in "difficult" places.

thanks -- annotate looks very applicable!

cheers, Greg