"John Wiegley" <jo...@gnu.org> writes: > 1. Use =org-table-to-lisp= to parse the Org table into a Lisp matrix (list of > lists). > > 2. Map through all of the cells in this matrix, converting each into a closure > that maps from a matrix of strings to a string. > > The work of each such closure is to calculate the formula for that > particular cell using =org-table-eval-formula= — which may involve looking > up the relevant cell, row or column formula from the table’s formula field > — and resolving any cell references by looking up those values in the > matrix argument. > ...
That would be nice indeed! > When I went looking at org-table.el, I find that it’s very much tailored to > work on the state of the buffer and its “work space”, and may not be so easy > to convert to a functional style, where instead we convert the table to a Lisp > data structure, operate on the data structure, and then render it back out to > a table. Unfortunately, yes. org-table.el is a very old code. > Are there any org-table.el masters who might be interested in helping with > such a reworking of the calculation engine? I am afraid that even I am lost in that file. But I do have some familiarity with that code and I will be willing to help if someone leads the refactoring effort. Also, CCing Corwin who has been working on some improvements/extensions to org-table.el recently. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode maintainer, 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>
