Re: [bug] removing last column with a column formula

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>]

On 24.8.2011, at 20:29, Bastien wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
> 
> Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Let's consider the following table:
>> 
>> #+begin_src org
>> | 1 | 2 | 3 |
>> | 1 | 2 | 3 |
>> #+TBLFM: @2$1..@2$3=@1
>> #+end_src
>> 
>> If I remove the second column (M-S-Left), the formula is correctly
>> updated. But when I remove the last column, the formula gets partly
>> deleted and becomes:
>> 
>>                            #+TBLFM: @2$1..
>> 
>> Also, if this times, the first column is removed, that line becomes:
>> 
>>                      #+TBLFM: @2$INVALID..@2$2=@1
>> 
>> This is with latest Org and no user configuration.
> 
> Is this something that we can (easily) fix?  


Not easily.  I have made it throw an error now, but there may be
other situations like this which are not yet captured.

Michael Brand has pointed out correctly that if you want to use
ranges the go to the border of the table, you should use
$< and $>

Cheers

- Carsten