Carsten Dominik wrote:
1) field coordinates:
[...]
+...@subsubheading Field coordinates
[...]
That does look reasonable, and I am going to take that patch.
Thank you. Maybe this change of the above would make it clearer:
+...@subsubheading Field coordinates in formulas
2) self-edited multi line TBLFM with comments:
Before looking further, I would like to find out if you are aware
of the existence of the formula editior, invoked the command
C-c ' (that is C-c followed by the single quote) while the
cursor is in a table.
The formula editor does not have comments, but otherwise it is more
powerful than what you propose.
Much more powerful, really great and well designed! Most of all the
highlighting of fields and ranges. I prefer that much over my proposal and
abandon comments inside. I knew the manual heading but since I stuck on the
word `debugging' and _underestimated_ the word `Editing', at least when
already editing in a org-mode buffer, I thought there is no need to read as
long as my formulas work... Not only for this reason but mostly because of
the great value I think it is more than worth mentioning it in the
spreadsheet summary in the manual somehow like this:
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--- org.texi.orig.texi Sat Mar 13 15:41:20 2010
+++ org.texi Sun Mar 14 12:39:07 2010
@@ -1931,7 +1931,9 @@ derive fields from other fields. While
implementation is not identical to other spreadsheets. For example,
Org knows the concept of a @emph{column formula} that will be
applied to all non-header fields in a column without having to copy the
-formula to each relevant field.
+formula to each relevant field. There is a special formula editor with
+features for highlighting fields in the table corresponding to the
+references at the point in the formula, moving these references by
+arrow keys and a formula debugger.
@menu
* References:: How to refer to another field or range
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