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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Inserting tables programatically in elisp
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2022 13:05:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2Y1hgcITEqtRRAp@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6G8r6Q0wA7TY17mTPQagC7PryWleqGax0pOrX8L2xjoiPqsFkn9baSX9lFxMC6HYwVK2H1EHc0rM8cGdPDaVLmUoflOoERNI0wbf_Ro0TZg=@protonmail.com>

* Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> [2022-11-05 12:27]:
> > And now the final result:
> > 
> > (rcd-org-table my-table) ⇒ "
> > | ID | Description | Amount |
> > |------+--------------------+--------|
> > | 1.00 | Payment for domain | 10.50 |
> > | 2.00 | Transfer from Doe | 250.00 |
> > 
> > "
> 
> The problem I see is that the code assumes use of org-mode, whereas
> I am interested in more general tables in any buffer.  At first
> perhaps just making a table for display rather than for user
> interaction.

Me too, that is what I do.

The output of that function is string, not "Org". The table format is
in Org format. 

Once you have got table as string, you may use Org export functions to
get for example nicely formatted Unicode table.

Mix anything.

-- 
Jean

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-05 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-05  7:41 Inserting tables programatically in elisp Heime
2022-11-05  8:49 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-05  9:20   ` Heime
2022-11-05  9:02 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-05  9:26   ` Heime
2022-11-05 10:05     ` Jean Louis [this message]
2022-11-05 10:23     ` Jean Louis

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