Re: How close does Emacs already come to Soulver?

[Bastien <bzg@altern.org>]

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 ?

-- 
 Bastien