Re: [O] C-0 C-c | throws emacs into infinite loop

[Carsten Dominik]

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