Carsten Dominik wrote:
but being able to import whole rows/columns
would be incredibly useful.
There is actually now a way to do tis - even though it is inefficient.
To copy column 2 from table FOO into column 3 of the current table, use
#+TBLFM: $3=remote(FOO,@@#$2)
This is now possible due to a patch by Michael Brand:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/22930
It works well, but it is inefficient because this formula will
parse the FOO table again for each field to be copied.
Very nice use case for `...@#'. How about a doc update somehow like this?
=============================================================================
--- a/doc/org.texi
+++ b/doc/org.texi
@@ -2061,10 +2061,15 @@ see the @samp{E} mode switch below). If
For Calc formulas and Lisp formulas @code{@@#} and @code{$#} can be used to
get the row or column number of the field where the formula result goes.
The traditional Lisp formula equivalents are @code{org-table-current-dline}
-and @code{org-table-current-column}. Example:
+and @code{org-table-current-column}. Examples:
@example
-if(@@# % 2, $#, string("")) @r{column number on odd lines only}
+if(@@# % 2, $#, string("")) @r{column number on odd lines only}
+$3 = remote(FOO, @@@@#$2) @r{copy column 2 from table FOO into}
+ @r{column 3 of the current ta...@footnote{both
+tables must have the same count of rows. Inefficient for a large count N of
+rows with a time complexity of O(N^2) because all rows of the FOO table will
+be parsed again for each field to be copied.}}
@end example
@subsubheading Named references
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