Ihor Radchenko writes:
> It has been over one month since the last message in this thread.
> Gavin, may I know if you are still interested to work on the patch?
Apologies for the lack of communication. I do plan on working on this
patch in the near future.
Max Nikulin writes:
> The regexp for parsing formulas does not allow named references after @.
> I have no idea if other code should be modified as well. I consider it
> as more important than detection of duplicated definitions.
Yeah, besides changing the regexp, the main thing that will need to
Max Nikulin writes:
> I have tried the patch. The formula for the named column "$three=" does
> not work.
>
> | ! | one | two | three | four |
> |---+-+-+---+--|
> | # | 1 | 2 | |3 |
>
> #+tblfm: @>$5=$one+$two::@>$three=$one+$two
Yeah, I guess my current patch only
Ihor Radchenko writes:
> Do we have any tests covering this part of the code?
Not that I know of. I can add a test case for this specific instance,
but I'm not sure if I should add more comprehensive tests in this patch.
What do you think?
> In Emacs 26, we will need (require 'subr-x), but other
Max Nikulin writes:
> On 19/07/2023 09:36, Gavin Downard wrote:
>> +++ b/lisp/org-table.el
>> @@ -2253,8 +2253,7 @@ LOCATION is a buffer position, consider the formulas
>> there."
>> ((not (match-end 2)) m)
>>
Max Nikulin writes:
> When I tried table formulas a couple of years ago I was surprised that it is
> not
> possible to use column names to specify target cells. At first glance it
> should
> be a great feature. Have you searched the mailing list archive whether it was
> requested earlier? Ther
pretty confusing.
>From c6ebbf02e0cb89839606338e8bbc4032810ea398 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gavin Downard
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2023 13:26:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] lisp/org-table.el: Allow named columns on lhs
* lisp/org-table.el (org-table-recalculate): Add support for named
columns on the lhs
