Re: Inserting tables programatically in elisp

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> writes:

> Have constructed this function, but the difficulty centers around
> the challenge of inserting text in specific tests.
>
> (defun make-table ()
>   (interactive)
>   (table-insert 4 5)
>   (table-forward-cell)
>   (table-insert-sequence "icomplt-horz" 1 1 1 'center)
>   (table-forward-cell 4)
>   (table-insert-sequence "icomplt-vert" 1 1 1 'center)
>   (table-release))
>
> It might be that "table.el" was designed under the assumption that the table would
> be edited interactively rather than from ELisp.  The lack of info may just reflect
> that nobody has thought about it making tables programatically that also goes beyond
> its utilisation in "org-mode".

You can call functions interactively from lisp, if needed.

> I understand that "Org" cooperates with its author Takaaki Ota, perhaps things could
> be extended in a way that makes inserting tables programatically much easier to work
> with.

Do you refer to things on table.el side? Then, you may have more luck
asking on emacs-devel list.

As for programmatically inserting native Org tables, you can always
construct table AST via org-element-create API and then insert it via
org-element-interpret-data.

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