[O] BUG in reference by ID to remote table (was Re: org babel question: reference tables in remote file)

[William Henney]

There is an apparent bug when using the ID property to refer to cells in remote tables, which is currently the only way to refer to a table in an external file. 

This is illustrated in the attached org file.  In brief, the bug is triggered by any ID that contains a sequence matching the regexp "-[A-Z]+[0-9]+-", which org wants to interpret as a spreadsheet-style cell reference. 

Also, it would be more user friendly if CUSTOM_ID properties could also be used in this way.  Would that be easy to implement?

Will 

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Bastien <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Arun,

Arun Persaud <address@hidden> writes:

> thanks for the answer. It would be nice to be able to reference tables
> in other files easily though, so some form of <path>:<tablename> would
> be great for the remote call. Is there some special ref syntax that
> could be used here?

     remote(NAME-OR-ID,REF)

describes a reference to a table in a section, possibly in a different
file, and the ID property is probably more stable than a filename, so
I'd argue that what we have is enough.

--
 Bastien

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  Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica,
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia

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