Re: Syntax Proposal: Multi-line Table Cells/Text Wrapping

[Andreas Eder]

On Fr 19 Mär 2021 at 13:33, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> With respect to the topic at hand, I believe it's the result of the same
> tendency that Excel users have of using spreadsheets (aka tables) for
> everything, something I hate when I'm given some Excel sheet that I need
> to modify and where entries are huge paragraphs.  The UI in Excel is
> horrible for these types of tables.  I would hate to see org go in the
> same direction.

+1 for that
Unfortunately I have to deal with this type of people at work.

> In many cases, I believe that a simple text based database format would
> be more appropriate.  I wonder if the time would be better spent
> providing native support for GNU recutils [1] in org instead.

recutils has an emacs mode an I think it even has some sort of org-mode
integration.

'Andreas