Re: org-table-copy-down feature request

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>]

Dnia 2014-01-27, o godz. 11:55:25
Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> napisał(a):

> Hi Marcin,
> 
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
> 
> > at present, the only reasonable values of org-table-copy-increment
> > are nil or non-nil.  How about enabling to use it as an increment
> > value? This would be very useful in the following case: I want to
> > make a table with dates for subsequent classes (and table is better
> > than headlines for me, since for each class I put - among others -
> > the number of problems solved during that class, so that I can use
> > the spreadsheet to compute the total and average-per-hour numbers;
> > useful for planning for the remainder of the semester;)).  It would
> > be great to set org-table-copy-increment to 7 so that I get
> > timestamps increased by one week.
> 
> What about accepting an Org formula as the "increment" value?
> 
> > Another change which would help me might be to have a special value
> > like 'arithmetic, so that the increment could be computed
> > from /this and previous/ entries. (This might be even better,
> > mimicking Excel's/LibreOffice's functionality, which is a bit
> > broken in those applications, since it seems to require a mouse,
> > but is very useful nonetheless.)
> 
> Yes -- the formula would make this possible too.
> 
> > Another, related problem I have with org-table-copy-down is that it
> > overwrites rows.  It might be better for it to insert a new row /if/
> > the entry in the next row is nonempty.
> 
> The default behavior seems TRT here, but an option could refine it.
> 
> > What do you think?
> 
> Thanks for raising this,
> 

You're welcome (and sorry for my delay).

I think the idea with a formula is great.  How do you imagine
overwriting the default one?  With a variable, or in a #+TBLFM line?
(I like the latter idea much better.)

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University