I had problems editing tables (using the minor mode orgtbl-mode) in markdown files.
To reproduce: - visit an empty buffer in markdown mode - M-x orgtbl-mode - create a new table (C-c |) - try to edit a cell - observe that the edited text is misplaced at the end of the line The following patch against 709bf92950fb3e9dd7425e01eb53eedad43c7262 seems to fix the problem diff --git a/lisp/org-table.el b/lisp/org-table.el index acad0bb..188a825 100644 --- a/lisp/org-table.el +++ b/lisp/org-table.el @@ -4233,10 +4233,10 @@ overwritten, and the table is not marked as requiring realignment." t) (eq N 1) (looking-at "[^|\n]* +|")) - (let (org-table-may-need-update) - (goto-char (1- (match-end 0))) - (backward-delete-char 1) - (goto-char (match-beginning 0)) + (let ((org-table-may-need-update) (mb (match-beginning 0)) (me (match-end 0))) + (goto-char (1- me)) + (delete-backward-char 1) + (goto-char mb) (self-insert-command N)) (setq org-table-may-need-update t) (let* (orgtbl-mode