Interesting, thanks for your response. I keep tables in their own files, one table per file to minimize complexity.
On Sat, 21 Aug 2021, Tim Cross wrote: > > OK, but I'm still a little unclear exactly what you are asking about. > > If it is just a general question about whether Emacs Forms could be used > for data input into an org table, the basic answer is yes, I think so. > > If your asking if anyone has done this - not that I'm aware of. > > If your asking how hard it would be to do, well that depends. > > The biggest challenge I can see is that Emacs forms expects a data file > which just consists of one record per line where each record is > separated by a specific character. That part is not too hard. However, > where things might get tricky is if you want to keep the data in an org > file with other org data. > > I imagine you could maintain a table in a data file fairly easily. You > can use the org '|' as the field separators and you would likely need to > write an input and output filter function to remove white space and add > it back on writing. None of this would be too hard. > > However, if you wanted an emacs forms interface to one or more tables > inside a normal org file, it might be more tricky. You would need a far > more sophisticated input/output filters and possibly need to narrow the > file or do something else to help the filter functions target the data. > > It has been many years since I used Emacs Forms. From memory, I gave up > on them as the level of maintenance exceeded the usefulness. I guess it > all really depends on how much data you need to edit and how predictable > the target data files are. > > . > Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> writes: > > > My reason for using forms to do data input into org tables is to minimize > > errors in the data input to the org tables. > > > > On Sat, 21 Aug 2021, Tim Cross wrote: > > > >> > >> So you are asking about using Emacs forms for data input into an org > >> table? > >> > >> Just not clear on what exactly your asking about. > >> > >> Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> writes: > >> > >> > A table with a time stamp column, a text column for notes and an interval > >> > column rounded to nearest hour. Any statistics to be calculated on that > >> > intervals column. > >> > > >> > > >> > On Sat, 21 Aug 2021, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > >> > > >> >> Can you elaborate? > >> >> > >> >> > >> > >> > >> > > >
