From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Goaziou Subject: Re: Table refuses to forget cell formula which once overrode a column formula Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:54:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87inebw6md.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> References: <871skzxzm5.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37034) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF5dG-0000Os-8W for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:54:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF5dF-0008KH-JN for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:54:06 -0500 Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:c:538::195]:58978) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF5dF-0008JU-DC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:54:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Ruy Exel's message of "Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:17:34 -0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Ruy Exel Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Ruy Exel 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,