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Subject: Re: org-table-copy-down incrementor
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To: Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>
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Hi Michael,

Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com> writes:

> As I see only now the use case
>     |  1.1 |
>     | -0.5 |
> does not seem easy to increment by -1.6 due to the formatting of the
> result, so I don't expect it to be implemented. (number-to-string is
> not enough because of the inaccuracy of the fraction.)

Yes.  There is also `thing-at-point' which does not recognize 1.1 as a
number... I circumvented this by using `calc-eval'.  The above should
now work correctly.

>> (const :tag "Don't increment the value when copying a field" t)))
>
> Wasn't the t meant to be nil?

It was a typo, thanks for reporting it!

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 Bastien