Patrick O'Neill <p...@umbc.edu> wrote: > I just wanted to give a quick word of thanks to Bernt Hansen and > everyone else answering questions on the emacs-orgmode list. Since > the mailing list is publicly archived, answered questions can remain > useful to others long after the original respondents have probably > forgotten about them. This answer > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2008-08/msg00057.html) > from 2008 was very useful to me and no doubt to others as well. >
Amen to that! But also thanks for pointing out those solutions - I either missed them the first time around or I forgot about them - probably the latter, but I cannot remember :-) : I took a look, was entirely mystified, tried them out, and I think I understand the last two (after spending some time with the formula debugger - and there might be some documentation lacunae that need to be filled there), but the first solution gives me errors and I have no idea what it is trying to do or how it goes about it: Bernt (or somebody else - I'm not picky), can you please provide an explanation? Does it still work? If so, how? Thanks, Nick For reference: (See the link provided by Patrick for details on the others: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2008-08/msg00055.html) The problem (raised by Daniel Sinder) is to automatically number the rows of a table and Bernt's first solution goes like this (this is my attempt to replicate it, hence the errors - in the post, the row numbers are correct): * one | Row | Data Column 1 | Data Column 2 | |--------+----------------+---------------------| | #ERROR | some data | more data | | #ERROR | some more data | even more data | |--------+----------------+---------------------| | #ERROR | and more | that's all | | #ERROR | still more | yup, you guessed it | |--------+----------------+---------------------| #+TBLFM: $1=find(@address@hidden,$2) ?!?!
