Re: [BUG] hline references on left side of table formula

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Rick,

hline-relative references on the left side of a table are currently not supported.  The fact that this is expanded is a bug.  A patch catching this case would be very welcome.

Regards

- Carsten

On May 1, 2013, at 7:27 PM, Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com> wrote:

> Hi-
> 
> I don't know if this is a bug or feature :), but if an hline reference
> (@I, etc) is used on the left side of a calculation, it applies to ALL
> columns in the row even if the column is specfied.
> 
> Here are some examples to show the results. I would expect all three
> versions to generate the same results as the first example.
> 
> #+BEGIN_ORG
>  * Absolute reference (expected results)
>    | a | b |
>    |---+---|
>    | x | 1 |
>    | y | 2 |
>    |---+---|
>    |   | 3 |
>  #+TBLFM: @4$2=vsum(@I..@II)
> 
>  * hline reference
>    | a     | b |
>    |-------+---|
>    | x     | 1 |
>    | y     | 2 |
>    |-------+---|
>    | x + y | 3 |
>  #+TBLFM: @II$2=vsum(@I..@II)
> 
>  * hline reference with full cell specification in sum
>    | a | b |
>    |---+---|
>    | x | 1 |
>    | y | 2 |
>    |---+---|
>    | 3 | 3 |
>  #+TBLFM: @II$2=vsum(@I$2..@II$2)
>  #+END_ORG
> 
> FWIW, I believe the problem is that `org-table-recalculate' is
> matching lhs cell references explicitly against pure numeric
> references ("@[0-9]+$[0-9]+") and therefore expands the lhs via
> `org-expand-lhs-ranges' instead of expanding it with
> `org-table-get-descriptor-line'
> 
> rick
> 
>