On 18.3.2011, at 15:29, Le Wang wrote: > The doc-string of `org-table-convert-region' doesn't specifically address 0 > as SEPARATOR, but 0 is an integer. It shouldn't hang in any case. When I > C-g out of the loop, my undo limit was exceeded because the line filled with > hundreds of thousands of empty cells. > > I think the correct behavior is to convert region into table using 0 spaces > as a separator -- so each character forms its own column.
While this might be nice, it is such a border case that, for now, I have only added an error message to prevent the converter from going into an infinite loop. Or do you have a *really* goo use case for this? - Carsten
