Re: [O] Table cell refs with @0 or $0 are broken

[Nick Dokos]

James Harkins <address@hidden> wrote:

> Don't know if this is fixed in a later org update, but -- the online
> org manual says that you can refer to table cells in the current row
> or column using @0 and $0 respectively, but that's definitely not
> working on my machine.
> 
> ** Works
> | 1.0 |
> | 2.0 |
> |  3. |
> #+TBLFM: @>$1=vsum(@address@hidden)
> 
> ** Broken: "Not in table data field"
> | 1.0 |
> | 2.0 |
> |     |
> #+TBLFM: @>$1=vsum(@address@hidden)
> 
> It's not a critical issue because it does work to omit $0 -- so my
> immediate problem is solved (getting the sum to calculate). But it
> costs a little extra time because either a/ the manual is wrong or b/
> $0 is supposed to work and there's a bug.
> 

Did this ever work? I've spot-checked back to 6.36c and I cannot find
a release where it actually worked: assuming I haven't made a mistake,
it seems to be an implementation oversight, rather than some patch
specifically breaking the functionality. 

Nick