From: Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Process hlines in imported tables
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:42:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130329214238.GA53401@BigDog.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wqsq6yd1.fsf@gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 09:04:42AM -0600, Eric Schulte wrote:
> Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com> writes:
>
> Users may want to insert a "-" in their tables, and I think it would be
> surprising to magically replace floating "-" characters with hlines.
> There are numerous existing options for inserting hlines into tables,
> e.g., the :colnames header argument, using the raw, wrap and org result
> types and printing literal Org-mode syntax from your block, additionally
> any result could be passed through an elisp code block which may insert
> hline symbols at will.
>
> Is there a specific use case which isn't addressed by the existing
> functionality?
Yes and no. :colnames works, but often the header comes from the
processing, so they may not be static (I use a lot of call:s). Also,
I've been having trouble using the output from raw results as input --
it seems that unless the results are cached (:cache yes), the table is
not parsed on input, but passed as a multiline string. I was hoping to
avoid this problem using value returns (now that Achim has made the
perl parsing work better). Here's an example (btw, this breaks in 7.4
as well):
* Cache vs. uncached raw
#+name: uncached
#+begin_src elisp :results raw
"|c1|c2|
|-
|a|1|
|b|2|"
#+end_src
#+call: uncached()
#+results: uncached()
: |c1|c2|
: |-
: |a|1|
: |b|2|
#+name: cached
#+begin_src elisp :results raw :cache yes
"|c1|c2|
|-
|a|1|
|b|2|"
#+end_src
#+results[62ca3004bf7cb363e47635216b3289cfdc39684c]: cached
| c1 | c2 |
|----+----|
| a | 1 |
| b | 2 |
#+call: cached()
#+results: cached()
| a | 1 |
| b | 2 |
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-29 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-29 1:46 [PATCH] Process hlines in imported tables Rick Frankel
2013-03-29 15:04 ` Eric Schulte
2013-03-29 21:42 ` Rick Frankel [this message]
2013-03-30 0:01 ` Eric Schulte
2013-03-30 23:41 ` Rick Frankel
2013-03-31 0:43 ` Eric Schulte
2013-03-31 12:29 ` Rick Frankel
2013-03-31 13:37 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-01 16:22 ` babel results handling (was: Process hlines in imported tables) Rick Frankel
2013-04-03 14:18 ` babel results handling Eric Schulte
2013-04-03 18:02 ` Achim Gratz
2013-04-04 18:20 ` Rick Frankel
2013-04-03 18:21 ` [PATCH] Process hlines in imported tables Achim Gratz
2013-04-04 13:59 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-04 15:02 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-04 21:01 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-06 16:30 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-15 13:06 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-15 15:25 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-15 19:27 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-04 18:35 ` Rick Frankel
2013-04-04 21:05 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-04 19:29 ` Achim Gratz
2013-04-06 16:29 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-06 17:07 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-06 17:24 ` Bastien
2013-04-06 17:39 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-04 18:30 ` Rick Frankel
2013-04-04 20:27 ` Sebastien Vauban
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