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Charles Choi <kickingve...@gmail.com> writes: > I recently made a blog post describing a means of calculating an Org table > reference from a selected text region or rectangle. I think this feature is > compelling enough to put into Org itself and as such I am raising this idea > with this group to gauge interest. > > This idea and its implementation are detailed in > http://yummymelon.com/devnull/referencing-org-table-cells-with-text-regions.html It would be nice if you summarized the feature request in a few sentences in the email. The link may or may not be available for future readers in 10+ years from now. AFAIR, the idea is roughly the following: 1. Currently, users need to type table cell references manually in table formulas: #+tblfm: @1$2+@5$4 2. Manually counting cells is not fun 3. We do have M-x org-table-edit-formulas where you can use S-<arrow> to change the existing cell reference, but it still requires having a reference to start with 4. The proposed feature is inserting a cell/range reference from mouse click/drag, as it is done in GUI spreadsheet apps (like Libreoffice calc) > I'm happy to respond to any feedback on this idea here. Also to > clarify, I'm much more interested in feedback for the idea and less so > on its current implementation. It is my hope that if the idea of it is > appealing enough, an optimal implementation can be made by this group. As we briefly discussed during the meetup, I believe that we can integrate mouse support into M-x org-table-edit-formulas: - when in fedit buffer, clicking/dragging on the original table should insert reference into the formula buffer Your idea about a command to copy reference to cell/region at point also makes sense (be it a context menu entry to a simple key binding/M-x command) > ... an optimal implementation can be made by this group I was hoping that you will be the person sending patches ;) At the end, you were interested enough in the feature to write the blog post. So, you are probably the most motivated as well. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
