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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Ruy Exel <ruyexel@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Table refuses to forget cell formula which once overrode a column formula
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:54:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inebw6md.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB8Wf+8QA4qM-cp3MRsFUoXtT=9uXBy4L88EsrOOjkKFiLJy+A@mail.gmail.com> (Ruy Exel's message of "Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:17:34 -0200")

Ruy Exel <ruyexel@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks very much.  Just out of curiosity I'd be interested in understanding
> how did you do it.  My (non expert) impression is that using properties to
> override column formulas isn't a good idea.

The property is here to prevent evaluation of a column formula on
a given field. It doesn't override anything.

> It seems to me it would be more natural to apply cell formulas AFTER
> all column formulas were applied, so that each cell would be simply
> the output of the formula defining it.

This is what happens already. The property prevents useless
computations.

Regards,

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-15 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-14 11:27 Table refuses to forget cell formula which once overrode a column formula Ruy Exel
2017-11-15 16:42 ` Nicolas Goaziou
     [not found]   ` <CAB8Wf+-VxdCKMfqZjRfYvMdQPwwzgs=FtWESpYuhokK3sZe8sw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-11-15 19:17     ` Ruy Exel
2017-11-15 21:07       ` Nick Dokos
2017-11-15 21:54       ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2017-11-15 23:30         ` Ruy Exel

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