Daniele Nicolodi writes: > On 25/11/2020 05:37, Kyle Meyer wrote: >> Daniele Nicolodi writes: [...] >>> Would it be worth to mention org-sbe in the same section of the manual? >> >> Yeah, it looks like there's no mention of org-sbe in the manual, so I >> think so (as a separate patch). > > After playing a bit with org-sbe, I came to the conclusion that it is > broken beyond repair, at least without breaking it for the people that > managed to make it work for them. > > I think that adding mention of it in the manual and explain all the > quirks of the macro is much more work than replace it with something > better.
Okay. org-sbe isn't something I've ever used, and I only have a superficial understanding of it. > I tried to write a better macro, please have a look here: > > https://orgmode.org/list/d429d29b-42fa-7d7b-6f3a-9fe692fd6...@grinta.net/ > > and the parent message for an explanation of what I think is broken in > org-sbe. Would you support adding org-sbx (for a lack of a better name) > to ob-table.el and mention it in the manual instead of org-sbe? I would > not go as far as deprecating org-sbe, just yet, but maybe soon... Sorry, I haven't got around to looking at that thread yet (though ideally someone that knows more about org-sbe will chime in). > Subject: [PATCH] doc/org-manual.org: Extend table formulas Lisp form > documentation > > doc/org-manual.org (Emacs Lisp forms as formulas): Be more > explicit about how fields are interpolated into the Lisp forms, > clarify the use of mode flags, and add a couple more examples. Thanks for the update. Applied (b2d38a822), adding an asterisk before "doc/org-manual.org".
