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Re: [O] org-table-copy-down feature request
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Bastien |
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Re: [O] org-table-copy-down feature request |
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Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:55:25 +0100 |
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Hi Marcin,
Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> 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