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Re: [O] org-table-copy-down feature request
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Marcin Borkowski |
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Re: [O] org-table-copy-down feature request |
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Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:10:53 +0100 |
Dnia 2014-01-27, o godz. 11:55:25
Bastien <address@hidden> napisaĆ(a):
> 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,
>
You're welcome (and sorry for my delay).
I think the idea with a formula is great. How do you imagine
overwriting the default one? With a variable, or in a #+TBLFM line?
(I like the latter idea much better.)
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University
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