Re: Re: Can't import a remote reference to a whole column in orgtbl

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Applied, thanks.

- Carsten

On Apr 4, 2010, at 9:02 PM, Michael Brand wrote:

> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>> but being able to import whole rows/columns
>>> would be incredibly useful.
>> There is actually now a way to do tis - even though it is  
>> inefficient.  To copy column 2 from table FOO into column 3 of the  
>> current table, use
>> #+TBLFM: $3=remote(FOO,@@#$2)
>> This is now possible due to a patch by Michael Brand:
>>    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/22930
>> It works well, but it is inefficient because this formula will
>> parse the FOO table again for each field to be copied.
>
> Very nice use case for `@#'. How about a doc update somehow like this?
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> @@ -2061,10 +2061,15 @@ see the @samp{E} mode switch below).  If
> For Calc formulas and Lisp formulas @code{@@#} and @code{$#} can be  
> used to
> get the row or column number of the field where the formula result  
> goes.
> The traditional Lisp formula equivalents are @code{org-table-current- 
> dline}
> -and @code{org-table-current-column}.  Example:
> +and @code{org-table-current-column}.  Examples:
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> @example
> -if(@@# % 2, $#, string(""))      @r{column number on odd lines only}
> +if(@@# % 2, $#, string(""))   @r{column number on odd lines only}
> +$3 = remote(FOO, @@@@#$2)      @r{copy column 2 from table FOO into}
> +                             @r{column 3 of the current  
> table@footnote{Both
> +tables must have the same count of rows.  Inefficient for a large  
> count N of
> +rows with a time complexity of O(N^2) because all rows of the FOO  
> table will
> +be parsed again for each field to be copied.}}
> @end example
>
> @subsubheading Named references
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- Carsten