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On Saturday, November 5th, 2022 at 9:02 AM, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> * Heime heimebor...@protonmail.com [2022-11-05 10:45]:
>
> > Have been introspecting the possibility of conveniently inserting table
> > programatically
> > in elisp and encountered "table.el".
> I would go programmatically not by hard coding the table walk, but by
> using some structure, for example:
>
> (setq my-table '(("ID" "Description" "Amount") ;; this must be header
> (1 "Payment for domain" 10.50)
> (2 "Transfer from Doe" 250)))
>
> Then I would use some function, something like:
>
> (my-org-table-generate my-table calculat-total 3rd-column)
>
> Then the function would only interpolate the table with basic
> small details, which allow later automatic table alignment:
>
> (defun rcd-org-table-cell (object)
> (cond ((numberp object) (format "| %.2f " object))
> (t (format "| %s " object))))
>
> (rcd-org-table-cell "Hello") ⇒ "| Hello "
>
> (defun rcd-org-table-horizontal-line ()
> "Return `|-' as horizontal-line."
> "|--\n")
>
> then for rows:
>
> (defun rcd-org-table-row (list)
> (with-temp-buffer
> (while list
> (insert (rcd-org-table-cell (pop list))))
> (insert "\n")
> (buffer-string)))
>
> This means you can do something like:
>
> (rcd-org-table-row '("ID" "Description" "Amount")) ⇒ "| ID | Description |
> Amount "
>
> then you make the main function:
>
> (defun rcd-org-table (structure)
> (let ((header (pop structure)))
> (with-temp-buffer
> (insert "\n")
> (insert (rcd-org-table-row header))
> (insert (rcd-org-table-horizontal-line))
> (while structure
> (insert (rcd-org-table-row (pop structure))))
> (insert "\n")
> (org-mode)
> (goto-char 2)
> (org-table-align)
> (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max)))))
>
> 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.
