From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien Subject: Re: org-table-copy-down feature request Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:55:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87txcpu21u.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> References: <20140125123225.0660fc0a@aga-netbook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51868) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7jqs-00045C-7q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:55:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7jqk-0005X8-UO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:55:38 -0500 Received: from mail-we0-x231.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::231]:50745) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7jqk-0005UO-LL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:55:30 -0500 Received: by mail-we0-f177.google.com with SMTP id x55so4883606wes.8 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:55:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20140125123225.0660fc0a@aga-netbook> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:32:25 +0100") 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-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Marcin Borkowski Cc: Org-mode mailing list Hi Marcin, Marcin Borkowski writes: > at present, the only reasonable values of org-table-copy-increment are > nil or non-nil. How about enabling to use it as an increment value? > This would be very useful in the following case: I want to make a table > with dates for subsequent classes (and table is better than headlines > for me, since for each class I put - among others - the number of > problems solved during that class, so that I can use the spreadsheet to > compute the total and average-per-hour numbers; useful for planning for > the remainder of the semester;)). It would be great to set > org-table-copy-increment to 7 so that I get timestamps increased by one > week. What about accepting an Org formula as the "increment" value? > Another change which would help me might be to have a special value like > 'arithmetic, so that the increment could be computed from /this and > previous/ entries. (This might be even better, mimicking > Excel's/LibreOffice's functionality, which is a bit broken in those > applications, since it seems to require a mouse, but is very useful > nonetheless.) Yes -- the formula would make this possible too. > Another, related problem I have with org-table-copy-down is that it > overwrites rows. It might be better for it to insert a new row /if/ > the entry in the next row is nonempty. The default behavior seems TRT here, but an option could refine it. > What do you think? Thanks for raising this, -- Bastien