table

table

[harven]

 I am trying to build a text-based table under emacs 22.1 stable. I
want to change the characters used to draw the borders of the table.

From the emacs manual, I have to set a few
variables:
(setq table-cell-intersection-char ?\u2504B)
(table-cell-vertical-char ?\u2503)
(setq table-cell-horizontal-chars ?\u2501)

Everything is fine for the two first variables, but
it doesn' t work for the last.
I had a look at the table.el file. There is only
one place where table-cell-horizontal-char
is mentioned, at the very beginning. The variable
used thereafter is table-cell-intersection-chars
and contains a string instead of a character.

(setq table-cell-horizontal-chars "\u2501")
finally worked for me but I am still wondering
what's going on there. Any hint ?

By the way, the table-capture command
uses a weird way of handling defaults
settings:

Column delimiter regexp : default-value

The default value is entered at the prompt.
This makes pretty difficult to put table-capture
in a macro. Each time the macro is executed,
the default-value is added again:

Column delimiter regexp : default-value default-value default-
value ...

IMHO it would have been better if the defaults
have been implemented using syntax like
Column-delimiter-regexp (default : default-value) :

Re: table

[Joel J. Adamson]

harven <harven@free.fr> writes:

>  I am trying to build a text-based table under emacs 22.1 stable. I
> want to change the characters used to draw the borders of the table.

You may want to check out org-mode, included with Emacs.

(info "(org) Tables")

Joel

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Re: table

[Peter Tury]

On márc. 19, 18:33, jadam...@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) wrote:
> harven <har...@free.fr> writes:
> >  I am trying to build a text-based table under emacs 22.1 stable. I
> > want to change the characters used to draw the borders of the table.
>
> You may want to check out org-mode, included with Emacs.
>
> (info "(org) Tables")
>
> Joel

This neither helps with tables; but: have you tried SES (Emacs
Spreadsheet)?
(info "(ses)Top")

Re: table

[Kevin Rodgers]

harven wrote:
>  I am trying to build a text-based table under emacs 22.1 stable. I
> want to change the characters used to draw the borders of the table.
> 
> From the emacs manual, I have to set a few
> variables:
> (setq table-cell-intersection-char ?\u2504B)
> (table-cell-vertical-char ?\u2503)
> (setq table-cell-horizontal-chars ?\u2501)
> 
> Everything is fine for the two first variables, but
> it doesn' t work for the last.
> I had a look at the table.el file. There is only
> one place where table-cell-horizontal-char
> is mentioned, at the very beginning. The variable
> used thereafter is table-cell-intersection-chars
> and contains a string instead of a character.

You meant table-cell-horizontal-chars, right?

> (setq table-cell-horizontal-chars "\u2501")
> finally worked for me but I am still wondering
> what's going on there. Any hint ?

The mention of singular -char in the Commentary of table.el and in the
Emacs manual are documentation bugs: there is no such variable.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

Re: table

[harven]

> The mention of singular -char in the Commentary of table.el and in the
> Emacs manual are documentation bugs: there is no such variable.

Thanks for your answers.
 I will have a look to the emacs
spreadsheet.

Re: table

[Bastien]

Peter Tury <tury.peter@gmail.com> writes:

>> You may want to check out org-mode, included with Emacs.
>>
>> (info "(org) Tables")
>
> This neither helps with tables; but: have you tried SES (Emacs
> Spreadsheet)?

What do you mean by "This neither helps with tables"?  
Org tables can surely help creating tables.

As for spreadsheet facilities, check

  (info "(org)The Spreadsheet")

and the tutorial for it:

  http://www.legito.net/worg/org-tutorials/org-spreadsheet-intro.php

HTH,

-- 
Bastien