On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 5:04 AM, William Henney <when...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Sebastien Vauban wrote >> >>> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Is it possible to export an orgmode table not to a new file but >>>> overwriting the org table in the same buffer? >>>> >>>> Context is editing source code which contains a largeish table of (say) >>>> constants. >>>> Editing is done with orgtbl minor mode. >>>> When done it should become back the table in the natural format of the >>>> programming language >>>> [For simplicity lets just say csv will do] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Using an Org Babel code block (which you have to write, of course) taking as >>> input your table, and outputting your constants in the wished format should >>> do >>> what you're looking for, right? >>> >>> >> I dont think so. >> The context is writing C with C mode (or haskell with haskell-mode python >> with python-mode etc) ie the user is not using orgmode. That is why I >> mentioned orgtbl, ie org table editing facilities are needed but the major >> mode is something else. >> > > What about a radio table using orgtbl-to-generic? > > See Appendix 6 of the Org manual > > Will > This looks like a useful approach The variable names dont seem to match: Appendix 6.2 talks of orgtbl-radio-tables However org (8.0.7) seems to have orgtbl-radio-table-templates Assuming they are the same, anywhere I can read about the documentation of the template format? Specifically I find that the name of the receiving function (orgtbl-to-latex) seems to have a significance. The same in the template seems to have none
