* Greg Minshall <minsh...@umich.edu> [2022-09-28 06:34]: > Jean Louis, > > > * Greg Minshall <minsh...@umich.edu> [2022-07-22 19:14]: > > > hi. does anyone have any code, or know of any existing package, that > > > would allow for some sort of form-like (or "transient"-like) interface > > > for adding rows to an org-mode table? in particular, that provides some > > > sort of =completing-read= interface for a given set of choices for a > > > given column, etc. > > > > I have total understanding for this use case, as I do similar all the > > time. Just that I don't use Org tables, I use database tables. > > the project that needs this has been on the back-burner for a while, > but, for the record, i have looked at "Column View" as a possible > replacement for "org tables as a database". in addition to a > completing-read interface, column view gives the opportunity to add > descriptive text to a row -- i.e., just the regular, non-property, > content under a headline -- which is very nice. but, i haven't played > with it enough to see how well it will fit my "needs".
I do not know what is column view. But I understand that you need descriptive text. What I know is that without unique ID, there can't be conclusive completion. That is why I first construct various completions like this: ;; because there can be same names in different rows (let* ((list '("Greg [1]" "Greg [2]")) (choice (completing-read "Choose: " list))) (rcd-get-bracketed-id-end choice)) ⇒ 2 (defun rcd-get-bracketed-id-end (s) "Return the ID number in string S from within first brackets on its end. For example it would return 123 from `Some string [123]'" (let* ((match (string-match "\\[\\([[:digit:]]*\\)\\][[:space:]]*$" s))) (when match (string-to-number (substring-no-properties s (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)))))) -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/