[BUG] Using org-table-next-line creates a new row when used on the header row [9.6.21 ( @ /Users/parhamdoustdar/.emacs.d/elpa/org-9.6.21/)]

[BUG] Using org-table-next-line creates a new row when used on the header row [9.6.21 ( @ /Users/parhamdoustdar/.emacs.d/elpa/org-9.6.21/)]

[Parham Doustdar]

Hi,
I’m facing an issue, and I’m not sure if it’s a bug, or a feature I don’t understand. I looked at the documentation for org tables, but couldn’t find anything that explicitly says I’m right or wrong.
If you run org-table-next-row on the very first line of a table that has a “horizontal rule”, it inserts a row above the horizontal rule, instead of skipping over it.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a buffer and turn on org-mode
2. Create a test table like this:
`| First column | Second column | C-c <RET>’
3. Move to the header line, that is, the very first line of the table and do `M-x org-table-next-row <RET>’
Note that a new line gets created under the very first line, and now the horizontal rule has moved to line number 3 of the table.
 What I expect to happen is for point to move to line 3 of the table, that is, the very first line under the horizontal rule.
Emacs  : GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin23.1.0, Carbon Version 170 AppKit 2487.2)
 of 2023-11-20
Package: Org mode version 9.6.21 ( @ /Users/parhamdoustdar/.emacs.d/elpa/org-9.6.21/)

current state:
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Re: [BUG] Using org-table-next-line creates a new row when used on the header row [9.6.21 ( @ /Users/parhamdoustdar/.emacs.d/elpa/org-9.6.21/)]

[Ihor Radchenko]

Parham Doustdar <parham90@gmail.com> writes:

> If you run org-table-next-row on the very first line of a table that has a “horizontal rule”, it inserts a row above the horizontal rule, instead of skipping over it.

This is expected.
`org-table-next-row' is, by default, bound to <RET>.
When current row is the last row in the table <RET> will create a new
empty row.
When current row is before hline, <RET> again creates a new empty row -
useful when editing tables separated into several parts by hlines:

| a | b |
|---+---|
| 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 4<point> |
|---+---|
| X | Y |

In the above, <RET> conveniently extends the current table span between
hline separators.

Not a bug.
Canceled.

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Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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