From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inserting a table
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2022 07:19:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sET5t4dHvpfOE_nV5zEYoWgLUmvpnGY9oZ940tKnyLZUqyhzFZQ5Faur79Jzpi3lWJHRH4u0RVZmbpHczi_CpIMBF-K0bSF6v1aZL-lnEUQ=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv35aytnyq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
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On Friday, November 4th, 2022 at 9:24 PM, Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > Why don't you follow the large commentary at the beginning of table.el
> > > instead?
> >
> > The difficulty is how to insert text in a particular cell.
>
>
> IIUC `table.el` was designed under the assumption that the table would
> be edited interactively rather than from ELisp.
> I'm not saying it won't work, but the lack of info may just reflect that
> nobody has thought about it yet. Maybe you can contribute to the doc
> (and/or code if it proves necessary) after you find out how to do it?
>
> Stefan
I agree with your general assessment. It would certainly be useful for many
users in rapidly insert tables programatically. I find tables useful for
displaying status information on emacs setup for instance. For instance, to
show what features and associated customisations have been enabled and set.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-05 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-04 20:33 Inserting a table Christopher Dimech
2022-11-04 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-04 21:13 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-11-04 21:24 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-11-05 7:19 ` Heime [this message]
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