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Re: [O] Curious as to message in echo area


From: Nick Dokos
Subject: Re: [O] Curious as to message in echo area
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 02:51:07 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Charles Millar <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have always concerned myself that a table column formula returns what is 
> expected.and is correct.
>
> However I never paid attention to the echo area and I just noticed that it 
> displays the following message
>
> "cells in region copied, use M-x org-table-paste-rectangle to paste them in a 
> table"
>
> when I C-c C-c on the formula in the following table
>
> | 1 |
> | 2 |
> | 3 |
> |   |
> #+tblfm: @>$>=vsum(@1..@>>)
>
> The correct result is returned.
>
> Have I been ignoring something for the past several years, i.e. has the above 
> message always been displayed?
>

No, it was added recently:

,----
| $ git blame -L 1868,1870 -- org-table.el
| 5c8cb1e733 (Bastien         2018-04-28 12:52:20 +0200 1868)     (setq 
org-table-clip (nreverse region))
| 5c8cb1e733 (Bastien         2018-04-28 12:52:20 +0200 1869)     (message 
(substitute-command-keys "Cells in the region copied, use 
\\[org-table-paste-rectangle] to paste them in a table."))))
| fe939ecb95 (Carsten Dominik 2008-03-22 16:52:18 +0100 1870) 
| $ git show 5c8cb1e733
| commit 5c8cb1e7332a9fd8ba71cd0a5fe7bdf5d19d09fd
| Author: Bastien <address@hidden>
| Date:   Sat Apr 28 12:52:20 2018 +0200
| 
|     Add messages for `org-table-copy-region' and `org-copy-visible'
|     
|     * lisp/org-table.el (org-table-copy-region):
|     * lisp/org.el (org-copy-visible): Add a message.
`----

> Just wondering.
>
> Charlie Millar
>
>  
>

-- 
Nick

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