[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
bug#37242: orgtbl-to-tsv drops empty cell
From: |
Bastien |
Subject: |
bug#37242: orgtbl-to-tsv drops empty cell |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Feb 2020 08:43:59 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Dear Tak,
Tak Kunihiro <tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp> writes:
> What orgtbl-to-tsv/csv does is to convert delimiters. In my opinion,
> to drop out empty lines is overwork.
Empty lines in csv/tsv files (when they are not part of a
double-quoted field) are ignored or should be.
For example, the Python CSV parser ignores them.
So Org does the right thing at not reprensenting them at all IMHO.
> This comes from orgtbl-to-generic. I cannot tell the behavior from
> docstring. If this is not a bug, I feel like this behavior is random
> one.
Yes, I don't consider this a bug. If you want to improve the
documentation, can you submit a patch?
Thanks,
--
Bastien