James Harkins <jamshar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Don't know if this is fixed in a later org update, but -- the online > org manual says that you can refer to table cells in the current row > or column using @0 and $0 respectively, but that's definitely not > working on my machine. > > ** Works > | 1.0 | > | 2.0 | > | 3. | > #+TBLFM: @>$1=vsum(@1..@2) > > ** Broken: "Not in table data field" > | 1.0 | > | 2.0 | > | | > #+TBLFM: @>$1=vsum(@1$0..@2$0) > > It's not a critical issue because it does work to omit $0 -- so my > immediate problem is solved (getting the sum to calculate). But it > costs a little extra time because either a/ the manual is wrong or b/ > $0 is supposed to work and there's a bug. >
Did this ever work? I've spot-checked back to 6.36c and I cannot find a release where it actually worked: assuming I haven't made a mistake, it seems to be an implementation oversight, rather than some patch specifically breaking the functionality. Nick
