Hello Andrès and al.,

I write to all people listed in SES manual acknowledgements to know if anybody minds the proposed change to how ses-select works.

Here is an update (from my dev branch, nothing yet pushed), with ses-select fixed. Also ses-range does not directly inlines the implementation, but now delegates to a helper function ses-range-engine. ses-range-engine has an extra-argument value-extractor, this way, if one day we wish to make some ses-symbol-range macro to get cell symbols instead of cell values, it would be quite easy to define it as follows:

(defmacro ses-symbol-range (from to &rest rest)
  `(ses-range-engine
    #'ses-cell--symbol
    (quote ,from) (quote ,to) ,(and rest `(quote ,rest))))

FYI information, the ses-select is now a function, no longer a macro, so it does not expand to a (list …) form containing symbols that by evaluation gets a list of values, but directly returns the list of values. I have no idea what the use of having this expansion to (list CELL-SYMBOLS) was, this seemed over-complex to me for no use. Also, ses-select used to revert the symbol order, and I have changed that too.

Any brickbats, questions, comments, etc… welcome,

  Vincent.

[https://res-h3.public.cdn.office.net/assets/mail/file-icon/png/generic_16x16.png]ses.el<https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkDIBBjRAOVwg3mnxH-UZJjXCV9n>



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De : Vincent Belaïche <vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr>
Envoyé : dimanche 24 décembre 2023 22:13
À : andrés ramírez <rrandresf@hotmail.com>
Cc : emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>; boruch_baum@gmx.com <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
Objet : RE: using ses programatically (was: a ses question)

Thank you Andrès for the feedback,

I have just pushed to master the improvement in ses+ documentation, and two other fixes. One is just an optimisation of ses-insert-row that was not really optimizing anything, and the other is about ses-formula-record, that was not recording anything, so the ' (ses-read-symbol) auto completion was not working.

   Vincent.

PS : Now the head of my dev branch is this [https://res-h3.public.cdn.office.net/assets/mail/file-icon/png/generic_16x16.png] ses.el<https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkDIBBjRAOVwg3hvsaDmTB8gD2ak>
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De : andrés ramírez <rrandresf@hotmail.com>
Envoyé : dimanche 24 décembre 2023 16:44
À : Vincent Belaïche <vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr>
Cc : emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>; boruch_baum@gmx.com <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
Objet : Re: using ses programatically (was: a ses question)

Hi. Vincent.

>>>>> "Vincent" == Vincent Belaïche <vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr> writes:

    Vincent> Hello Andrès,

    Vincent> That is a good point that ses+ needs better documentation : I attached an update of
    Vincent> ses.texi, [cid:55adc5ac-b103-461e-8604-536c90cae07a]
    Vincent> ses.texi.diff<https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkDIBBjRAOVwg3ZPAidBAE7SrkLK>[cid:240f77ca-5cdb-40fb-b4c2-ee89a0eba1d4]ses.texi<https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkDIBBjRAOVwg3UshpzT9ZLCIiDf>.
    Vincent> Do you think it is OK ?

The documentation change is Ok.

    Vincent> Concerning the ses-setq and change of ses-range, I realized that this makes a
    Vincent> regression on ses-insert-range and ses-select, I have made a fix to ses-insert-range
    Vincent> here : [cid:c43f099d-1b5e-4b57-a9f0-7feb40546350]
    Vincent> ses.el<https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkDIBBjRAOVwg3f1R7Le1n3L7qVe>, I still need to fix
    Vincent> ses-select, since this is not a macro I use, it will take me some more time. Also,
    Vincent> documenting this and writing tests is still needed before I merge my local dev branch
    Vincent> to master.

Take your time. And let me know when that part is completed.

Andrés Ramírez
ps: I have a second case (improvement) for discussion (about keyboard
macros and ses)