Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
> I'm not sure. I wrote this some years ago. I guess the rationale at that
> time was that it didn't feel useful to apply a format to an empty cell.
> For example, if you use `:fmt "$%s$"', I assume you wouldn't want to get
> "$$" in otherwise empty cells.
Also makes sense.
At this point, third-party code is likely to rely on the existing logic,
so I do not see any reason to insist on changing org-table.
To avoid confusion, can we change the docstring explicitly saying that
empty cells are ignored? (see the attached)
Best,
Ihor
>From 60365a164147dfc71f0047661c143b54064a459b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-Id: <60365a164147dfc71f0047661c143b54064a459b.1633060596.git.yanta...@gmail.com>
From: Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 11:40:54 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] orgtbl-to-generic: Mention that :fmt is ignored for empty
cells
* lisp/org-table.el (orgtbl-to-generic): Amend docstring mentioning
that :fmt is ignored for empty table cells.
---
lisp/org-table.el | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lisp/org-table.el b/lisp/org-table.el
index 89c57fb06..3fed15054 100644
--- a/lisp/org-table.el
+++ b/lisp/org-table.el
@@ -5649,6 +5649,9 @@ (defun orgtbl-to-generic (table params)
(:fmt (2 \"$%s$\" 4 (lambda (c) (format \"$%s$\" c))))
+ The format is ignored for empty fields. Use :raw t with non-nil
+ :backend option to force formatting empty fields.
+
:hlstart :hllstart :hlend :hllend :hsep :hlfmt :hllfmt :hfmt
Same as above, specific for the header lines in the table.
--
2.32.0
