From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Breaking up long #+TBLFM line?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:42:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737tlzhce.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zivtwsxw.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de
"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
> Hi Karl,
>
> Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
>
>> * Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>>> Is there any way to break up an overly long #+TBLFM line?
>>
>> The question is: why?
>
> Because, purely aesthetically, I don't like having a #+TBLFM line which
> is 240 characters long when the window (and the table in it) is less
> than chars wide.
>
>> My guess: you're missing the C-c ' (org-edit-special) which offers
>> you a user-friendly way to modify formulas.
>
> You're right, I did know about C-c ' but not with table formulae. Nice!
>
> However, I still don't like the long #+TBLFM, although it's not going to
> kill me.
>
That's good, because I think you'll have to live with it :-)
There is support for multiple TBLFM lines, but not in the way you want:
they are alternatives, rather than cumulative - see
(info "(org) Editing and debugging formulas")
the section entitled "Using multiple #+TBLFM lines".
--
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-25 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-20 8:18 Breaking up long #+TBLFM line? Loris Bennett
2016-01-25 14:51 ` Karl Voit
2016-01-25 15:59 ` Loris Bennett
2016-01-25 16:05 ` Loris Bennett
2016-01-25 17:42 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2016-01-26 4:20 ` Samuel Wales
2016-01-26 14:55 ` table editor is off screen (was: Breaking up long #+TBLFM line?) Karl Voit
2016-01-26 23:34 ` table editor is off screen Nicolas Goaziou
2016-01-27 0:09 ` Samuel Wales
2016-01-26 7:48 ` Breaking up long #+TBLFM line? Loris Bennett
2016-01-26 11:37 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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