Re: [O] org-table-copy-down feature request
Dnia 2014-01-27, o godz. 11:55:25 Bastien b...@gnu.org napisał(a): Hi Marcin, Marcin Borkowski mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl writes: at present, the only reasonable values of org-table-copy-increment are nil or non-nil. How about enabling to use it as an increment value? This would be very useful in the following case: I want to make a table with dates for subsequent classes (and table is better than headlines for me, since for each class I put - among others - the number of problems solved during that class, so that I can use the spreadsheet to compute the total and average-per-hour numbers; useful for planning for the remainder of the semester;)). It would be great to set org-table-copy-increment to 7 so that I get timestamps increased by one week. What about accepting an Org formula as the increment value? Another change which would help me might be to have a special value like 'arithmetic, so that the increment could be computed from /this and previous/ entries. (This might be even better, mimicking Excel's/LibreOffice's functionality, which is a bit broken in those applications, since it seems to require a mouse, but is very useful nonetheless.) Yes -- the formula would make this possible too. Another, related problem I have with org-table-copy-down is that it overwrites rows. It might be better for it to insert a new row /if/ the entry in the next row is nonempty. The default behavior seems TRT here, but an option could refine it. What do you think? Thanks for raising this, You're welcome (and sorry for my delay). I think the idea with a formula is great. How do you imagine overwriting the default one? With a variable, or in a #+TBLFM line? (I like the latter idea much better.) Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University
Re: [O] org-table-copy-down feature request
Hi Marcin, Marcin Borkowski mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl writes: at present, the only reasonable values of org-table-copy-increment are nil or non-nil. How about enabling to use it as an increment value? This would be very useful in the following case: I want to make a table with dates for subsequent classes (and table is better than headlines for me, since for each class I put - among others - the number of problems solved during that class, so that I can use the spreadsheet to compute the total and average-per-hour numbers; useful for planning for the remainder of the semester;)). It would be great to set org-table-copy-increment to 7 so that I get timestamps increased by one week. What about accepting an Org formula as the increment value? Another change which would help me might be to have a special value like 'arithmetic, so that the increment could be computed from /this and previous/ entries. (This might be even better, mimicking Excel's/LibreOffice's functionality, which is a bit broken in those applications, since it seems to require a mouse, but is very useful nonetheless.) Yes -- the formula would make this possible too. Another, related problem I have with org-table-copy-down is that it overwrites rows. It might be better for it to insert a new row /if/ the entry in the next row is nonempty. The default behavior seems TRT here, but an option could refine it. What do you think? Thanks for raising this, -- Bastien
[O] org-table-copy-down feature request
Hi Org Devs and Users, at present, the only reasonable values of org-table-copy-increment are nil or non-nil. How about enabling to use it as an increment value? This would be very useful in the following case: I want to make a table with dates for subsequent classes (and table is better than headlines for me, since for each class I put - among others - the number of problems solved during that class, so that I can use the spreadsheet to compute the total and average-per-hour numbers; useful for planning for the remainder of the semester;)). It would be great to set org-table-copy-increment to 7 so that I get timestamps increased by one week. Another change which would help me might be to have a special value like 'arithmetic, so that the increment could be computed from /this and previous/ entries. (This might be even better, mimicking Excel's/LibreOffice's functionality, which is a bit broken in those applications, since it seems to require a mouse, but is very useful nonetheless.) Another, related problem I have with org-table-copy-down is that it overwrites rows. It might be better for it to insert a new row /if/ the entry in the next row is nonempty. What do you think? -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University
