Julien Cubizolles <[email protected]> writes:
> According to the manual
> (https://orgmode.org/manual/Advanced-features.html), named fields in
> formula should be referred to by $name when a formula is assigned to
> them
>
>> ‘^’ This row defines names for the fields above the row. With such a
>> definition, any formula in the table may use ‘$m1’ to refer to the
>> value ‘10’. Also, if you assign a formula to a names field, it is
>> stored as ‘$name = ...’.
>
> However with 'C-u C-c =' in a named field, the prompt doesn't
> include the '$' for the name and the formula then defined doesn't work.
Confirmed.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Crete table
| | 1 | 5 |
| ^ | a | b |
2. Move point to "5"
3. C-u C-c =
4. b=1
5. Observe
#+TBLFM: b=1
Should be
#+TBLFM: $b=1
Observations:
1. org-table-get-stored-formulas returns (("b" . 1)) from $+TBLFM: $b=1
Note how $ is stripped
2. org-table-store-formulas simply writes "b" as is, without adding "$"
These things are a bit fragile. One needs to carefully consider how to
solve the bug and not break org-table along the way.
--
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode maintainer,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
