Re: table export to same buffer

[Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 5:04 AM, William Henney <whenney@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Sebastien Vauban wrote
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>>> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is it possible to export an orgmode table not to a new file but
>>>> overwriting the org table in the same buffer?
>>>>
>>>> Context is editing source code which contains a largeish table of (say)
>>>> constants.
>>>> Editing is done with orgtbl minor mode.
>>>> When done it should become back the table in the natural format of the
>>>> programming language
>>>> [For simplicity lets just say csv will do]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Using an Org Babel code block (which you have to write, of course) taking as
>>> input your table, and outputting your constants in the wished format should do
>>> what you're looking for, right?
>>>
>>>
>> I dont think so.
>> The context is writing C with C mode (or haskell with haskell-mode python
>> with python-mode etc) ie the user is not using orgmode.  That is why I
>> mentioned orgtbl, ie org table editing facilities are needed but the major
>> mode is something else.
>>
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> What about a radio table using orgtbl-to-generic?
>
> See Appendix 6 of the Org manual
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> Will
>

This looks like a useful approach

The variable names dont seem to match:
Appendix 6.2 talks of orgtbl-radio-tables
However org (8.0.7) seems to have orgtbl-radio-table-templates

Assuming they are the same, anywhere I can read about the documentation of
the template format?
Specifically I find that the name of the receiving function
(orgtbl-to-latex) seems to have a significance.  The same in the template
seems to have none

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