Re: [O] Bug: named columns in tables not working if name contains "_"

[Nick Dokos]

András Major <address@hidden> wrote:


> Yet another one I just stumbled across: if I create a table and use
> "!" in the first column to assign names to the columns, I can only
> reference those columns by name in #+TBLFM: if the names don't contain
> a "_" character.  This isn't mentioned in the docs and shouldn't be
> so, IMHO.  I haven't checked for other common characters that are
> prohibited, but the "_" bites me quite a bit.
> 

Try adding an underscore to the regexp on line 2179 of org-table.el -
something like this (untested):

          ...
          (if (string-match "^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*$" name)
              (push (cons name (int-to-string cnt)) org-table-column-names))))


The only characters permitted are alphanumerics. That can probably be
easily relaxed.

Nick