Re: [O] Fwd: comment lines inside org tables

2016-10-05 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Rolf Sander (MPI) writes: > I still think orgmode is great code and I would have loved to > participate. However, given the way that you treat me here, I lost my > motivation to work with you. Instead, I will have to modify my own *.el > files. Git makes this relatively painless. My sense is th

Re: [O] Fwd: comment lines inside org tables

2016-10-05 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, "Rolf Sander (MPI)" writes: > I'm sorry to say this but this email list has been the most > disappointing experience for me. I asked a simple question and even > provided the code for a possible solution. The answers I received > included phrases like "can of worms", "little benefit" and

Re: [O] Fwd: comment lines inside org tables

2016-10-05 Thread Rolf Sander (MPI)
Hello Nicolas and everyone else, I'm sorry to say this but this email list has been the most disappointing experience for me. I asked a simple question and even provided the code for a possible solution. The answers I received included phrases like "can of worms", "little benefit" and "barely scr

Re: [O] Fwd: comment lines inside org tables

2016-10-05 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, "Rolf Sander (MPI)" writes: > I am still waiting for an answer to my question if the solution with > "|-/" comments that I have proposed has any negative side effects... I already answered to that question, but you discarded my answer. Again, you're hacking a new syntax that the parser

Re: [O] Fwd: comment lines inside org tables

2016-10-05 Thread Rolf Sander (MPI)
Hello Eric, could you not simply use the / label and then have a comment in one of the existing columns, a column that is width restricted so that a large amount of text doesn't affect alignent? You can then use the special edit mode (C-c `) for long entries to see the full comment. Thanks for

Re: [O] Fwd: comment lines inside org tables

2016-10-03 Thread Rolf Sander
Hello Nicolas, Allowing to comment anything is a can of worms I really don't want to open. Maybe you are misinterpreting what I wrote. I don't want to comment "anything". All I want is that a table line starting with "|-/" is not expanded to "|---+---+---|" on the next re-align. Instead, it sh

Re: [O] Fwd: comment lines inside org tables

2016-10-03 Thread Eric S Fraga
Sorry to interrupt this conversation but I wonder: could you not simply use the / label and then have a comment in one of the existing columns, a column that is width restricted so that a large amount of text doesn't affect alignent? You can then use the special edit mode (C-c `) for long entries

Re: [O] Fwd: comment lines inside org tables

2016-10-03 Thread Rolf Sander (MPI)
Hello Nicolas, Allowing to comment anything is a can of worms I really don't want to open. Maybe you are misinterpreting what I wrote. I don't want to comment "anything". All I want is that a table line starting with "|-/" is not expanded to "|---+---+---|" on the next re-align. Instead, it sh

Re: [O] Fwd: comment lines inside org tables

2016-09-30 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Rolf Sander writes: > I want to add a comment line into the file that does not disturb the > table. Disturb the table wrt to what action? Alignment? This is a minor issue if you fix an arbitrary column width, isn't it? > Like a "|---+---+---|" hline. I don't want any action. All > progr

Re: [O] Fwd: comment lines inside org tables

2016-09-30 Thread Rolf Sander
Hello Nicolas, Then I don't understand what you really want. You want to comment a row, but it's not clear wrt to what action. I want to add a comment line into the file that does not disturb the table. Like a "|---+---+---|" hline. I don't want any action. All programming languages have the o

Re: [O] Fwd: comment lines inside org tables

2016-09-27 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, "Rolf Sander (MPI)" writes: > Thanks for the suggestion. However, this won't help me very much. Even > with the "/", the width of the "animal" column is expanded to the width > of the comment, which can be very long. I could add a narrowing marker > but I want to see the comments, not hid

Re: [O] Fwd: comment lines inside org tables

2016-09-27 Thread Rolf Sander (MPI)
Hello Nicolas, Try | | animal | size | number | | / | don't forget to add elephants here: | || Thanks for the suggestion. However, this won't help me very much. Even with the "/", the width of the "animal" column is expanded to the width of the com

Re: [O] Fwd: comment lines inside org tables

2016-09-27 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, "Rolf Sander (MPI)" writes: > I need to put comments inside a very big table which then should > basically looks like this: > > |+---+| > | animal | size | number | > |+---+| > | gnus | big | 3 | > # don't forget to add elephants here: > |

Re: [O] Fwd: comment lines inside org tables

2016-09-27 Thread John Kitchin
Use a footnote? It's just a temporary reminder right? On September 27, 2016, at 6:56 AM, "Rolf Sander (MPI)" wrote: Hello, I need to put comments inside a very big table which then should basically looks like this: |+---+| | animal | size | number | |+---+

[O] Fwd: comment lines inside org tables

2016-09-27 Thread Rolf Sander (MPI)
Hello, I need to put comments inside a very big table which then should basically looks like this: |+---+| | animal | size | number | |+---+| | gnus | big | 3 | # don't forget to add elephants here: | gnats | small | 1000 | |+---+-