Re: How close does Emacs already come to Soulver?

[Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> You mean C-c C-c on the #+TBLFM line ?

Perhaps. I hadn't heard of TBLFM prior to this.

How could I use that (sounds like part of the Spreadsheet subsystem of
Org?) to do something like `2 dogs x 3 pounds of food x 7 per pound =
${recalculated field:42}`, which is what Soulver seems to do?

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