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Re: [O] org-fill-paragraph leaves point at end of table
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Carsten Dominik |
Subject: |
Re: [O] org-fill-paragraph leaves point at end of table |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:21:49 +0100 |
On 25 feb. 2013, at 10:10, Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Calling `org-fill-paragraph' inside a table leaves point at the end of
>> the table, for reasons that are totally unclear to me.
>>
>> I've tested this with up-to-date org and emacs -Q, so I'm hoping it's
>> reproducible. I edebugged org-fill-paragraph, and it appears to do the
>> right thing, going from the save-excursion to the cond to the org-table
>> cond statement, and there calling `org-table-align'. That works
>> correctly, but stepping forward you come to the end of the enclosing
>> `save-excursion', and emerging from `save-excursion' puts point at the
>> end of the table -- precisely what it's not supposed to do!
>>
>> I made a minimum sexp to reproduce the relevant bits of
>> org-fill-paragraph:
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>> (save-excursion
>> (let ((element (org-element-at-point)))
>> (case (org-element-type element)
>> (table-row (org-table-align) t))))
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> Putting point in a table and eval'ing that also leaves point at the end
>> of the table. I tried using (call-interactively 'org-table-align) and it
>> did the same thing.
>>
>> I'm baffled, particularly as it doesn't do this for any other element
>> type. Any clever ideas? M-q after a bit of typing is already stuck in my
>> fingers, and this bit of strangeness doesn't set the mark, so editing
>> long tables is a pain...
>
> `org-table-align' inserts a whole new table and removes completely the
> previous one. This confuses `save-excursion' which doesn't recognize any
> familiar location anymore.
>
> I've pushed a fix for it. All filling tests pass, but if you notice
> anything suspicious, please signal it.
I do not expect problems, because you now fall back onto org-table-align
without any save-excursion around it, AFAICS. org-table-align remembers line
number and table row number and restores them, so this should work.
- Carsten