Re: orgtbl-mode and markdown

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On 18 dec. 2012, at 09:33, Vegard Vesterheim <vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no> wrote:

> I had problems editing tables (using the minor mode orgtbl-mode) in
> markdown files. 
> 
> To reproduce: 
> - visit an empty buffer in markdown mode
> - M-x orgtbl-mode
> - create a new table (C-c |)
> - try to edit a cell
> - observe that the edited text is misplaced at the end of the line
> 
> The following patch against 709bf92950fb3e9dd7425e01eb53eedad43c7262
> seems to fix the problem
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/org-table.el b/lisp/org-table.el
> index acad0bb..188a825 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-table.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-table.el
> @@ -4233,10 +4233,10 @@ overwritten, and the table is not marked as requiring realignment."
> 	    t)
> 	   (eq N 1)
> 	   (looking-at "[^|\n]*  +|"))
> -      (let (org-table-may-need-update)
> -	(goto-char (1- (match-end 0)))
> -	(backward-delete-char 1)
> -	(goto-char (match-beginning 0))
> +      (let ((org-table-may-need-update) (mb (match-beginning 0)) (me (match-end 0)))
> +	(goto-char (1- me))
> +	(delete-backward-char 1)
> +	(goto-char mb)
> 	(self-insert-command N))
>     (setq org-table-may-need-update t)
>     (let* (orgtbl-mode


This is really strange.  Does markdown mode define hooks which kick in on delete-backward-char and which to bad stuff with the match data?  Looks to me that this is a bug in markdown-mode, which should be reported to its authors.

- Carsten