Re: How close does Emacs already come to Soulver?

[Tim Visher]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It strikes me as something that calc or org might already do.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Yes, Emacs and Org could do this.  You would need to let a table's
> formulas be recalculated at each insertion (see post-command-hook).
>
> That said, those demos are shiny when watching for a few seconds,
> but we you really edit a buffer, you don't really want text that
> is *not* under point to change at each insertion.  This is tiring.
> At least this is how I feel it.

I'd actually be quite satisfied with having to call something to have
the results recalculated, how would I go about getting the actual
calculations done though?

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