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From: Tony E. Bennett <tony.e.bennett@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: org-open-line inconsistent treatment of marking characters '#'
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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 10:12:35 -0500
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Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Tony E. Bennett <tony.e.bennett@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> How would org verify column 1 is a special column beyond just checking for
>> [#*$] which it does already ?
>
> It would require to check every row. For example, there is no special
> column in the following table
>
>   | * | cell |
>   | 1 | cell |

Is 'special first _column_' really an org concept?  Recalc seems to only
look at each row individually.  This table:

  | * | 7 | 11 |   |
  | 1 | 8 | 11 |   |
  | * | 9 | 11 |   |
  #+TBLFM: $4=$2*$3

Then 'C-u C-c *' gives:

  | * | 7 | 11 | 77 |
  | 1 | 8 | 11 |    |
  | * | 9 | 11 | 99 |
  #+TBLFM: $4=$2*$3

The '1' in @2 did not interfere at all with special recalc of @1 & 3.

> However, that would be too long, so maybe not copying anything over the
> next row would be the way to go.

I hope not as the current behavior is very convenient and with little
risk of unintended or unwanted behavior.

thanks

-- 

--tony