Re: [O] changing cells in an org-mode table with Emacs lisp

[Michael Brand]

Hi Tamas

On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Tamas Papp <address@hidden> wrote:
> | a   | a   |
> | aa  | aa  |
> | aaa | aaa |
>
> would be replaced by
>
> | *a* | *a*  |
> | aa  | *aa* |
> | aaa | aaa  |

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results silent
  (defun format-cell (cell row col)
    (if (<= (length cell) col)
        (concat "*" cell "*")
      cell))
#+END_SRC

| *a* | *a*  |
| aa  | *aa* |
| aaa | aaa  |
#+TBLFM: @<$<..@>$> = '(format-cell @0$0 (org-table-current-dline)
(org-table-current-column))

or

#+TBLFM: @<$<..@>$> = '(format-cell @0$0 @# $#)

For explanations please see the manual.

Michael