Hi Marcin, Marcin Borkowski <mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
> at present, the only reasonable values of org-table-copy-increment are > nil or non-nil. How about enabling to use it as an increment value? > This would be very useful in the following case: I want to make a table > with dates for subsequent classes (and table is better than headlines > for me, since for each class I put - among others - the number of > problems solved during that class, so that I can use the spreadsheet to > compute the total and average-per-hour numbers; useful for planning for > the remainder of the semester;)). It would be great to set > org-table-copy-increment to 7 so that I get timestamps increased by one > week. What about accepting an Org formula as the "increment" value? > Another change which would help me might be to have a special value like > 'arithmetic, so that the increment could be computed from /this and > previous/ entries. (This might be even better, mimicking > Excel's/LibreOffice's functionality, which is a bit broken in those > applications, since it seems to require a mouse, but is very useful > nonetheless.) Yes -- the formula would make this possible too. > Another, related problem I have with org-table-copy-down is that it > overwrites rows. It might be better for it to insert a new row /if/ > the entry in the next row is nonempty. The default behavior seems TRT here, but an option could refine it. > What do you think? Thanks for raising this, -- Bastien
