Re: Inserting tables programatically in elisp

[Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>]

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On Saturday, November 5th, 2022 at 8:49 AM, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:


> 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.

One could work as you say, but only if the calls do not rely on finding table regions
and so on.
 
> > 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.

Correct.  Thanks.  
 
> 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.

I am discussing the use of tables beyond "org".