Small bug in table editing

Small bug in table editing

[Christopher Witte]

Hi,

I've been using the table editing feature of org mode, I never
realised plain text tables could be such fun to work with, and I just
came across a small bug. I had entered a table:

| Heading 1 | Heading 2 |
|         1 |         2 |
|        11 |        22 |


and then decided I wanted to go back and put a horizontal line after
the heading.  So I want to the start of the line after the heading and
entered "|-"

| Heading 1 | Heading 2 |
|-|         1 |         2 |
|        11 |        22 |

when I then pressed enter (or tab), the first line of data got eaten
up and replaced with the horizontal line like this:

| Heading 1 | Heading 2 |
|-----------+-----------|
|        11 |        22 |

This wasn't the behaviour I was expecting :).  While it is pretty
obvious to see what was going on in this example, if you have a long
table it isn't as obvious and I didn't notice until much later (emacs
undo in region saved the day).

Cheers,
Chris.

Re: Small bug in table editing

[Achim Gratz]

Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au> writes:
> and then decided I wanted to go back and put a horizontal line after
> the heading.  So I want to the start of the line after the heading and
> entered "|-"

Not really a bug...anything past '|-' is considered garbage.
Try 'C-c -' instead, or open a new line when you enter '|-'.


Achim.
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Re: Re: Small bug in table editing

[Christopher Witte]

I tend to disagree. I feel that anything that breaks the semantic
model of "enter = insert new line at point" is a bug.  Particularly if
it results in the loss of data.  But I can be persuaded otherwise.

Cheers
Chris


On 3 February 2011 19:27, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au> writes:
>> and then decided I wanted to go back and put a horizontal line after
>> the heading.  So I want to the start of the line after the heading and
>> entered "|-"
>
> Not really a bug...anything past '|-' is considered garbage.
> Try 'C-c -' instead, or open a new line when you enter '|-'.
>
>
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Re: Small bug in table editing

[Achim Gratz]

Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au> writes:
> I tend to disagree. I feel that anything that breaks the semantic
> model of "enter = insert new line at point" is a bug.

Then don't use org-mode tables, because "enter" has different (and at
least to me) more useful semantics there.


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Re: Re: Small bug in table editing

[Christopher Witte]

As I said, I can be persuaded otherwise, but saying don't use org-mode
tables isn't very persuasive.  What is the semantic model for "enter"
when using org-mode tables? Clearly I don't understand it.

Thanks,
Chris.



On 4 February 2011 17:58, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au> writes:
>> I tend to disagree. I feel that anything that breaks the semantic
>> model of "enter = insert new line at point" is a bug.
>
> Then don't use org-mode tables, because "enter" has different (and at
> least to me) more useful semantics there.
>
>
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Re: Re: Small bug in table editing

[Bastien]

Hi Christopher,

Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au> writes:

> As I said, I can be persuaded otherwise, but saying don't use org-mode
> tables isn't very persuasive.  

:)

> What is the semantic model for "enter"
> when using org-mode tables? Clearly I don't understand it.

Return and TAB reformats the current table line.
Return goes to next-line and same-column cell.
TAB goes to the same-line and next-column cell.

I think reformatting a line starting with |- to |----+----| 
is the right thing to do.

What did you expect instead?

-- 
 Bastien