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[PATCH] table.el: Wiki export

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Message #8 received at 13287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Aaron S. Hawley" <aaron.s.hawley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 13287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13287: [PATCH] table.el: Wiki export
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:56:15 +1100

"Aaron S. Hawley" <aaron.s.hawley <at> gmail.com> writes:

> This patch adds support for exporting Emacs tables to Wiki and
> MediaWiki source.  The Wiki format is a generally accepted table
> format used by various Wiki engines.
>
> This patch is the minimal implementation for exporting these formats.
> It doesn't do any quoting (of the table syntax characters) and might
> not do the correct thing for multiple line cells.  Making it work in
> these situations might take some rework of the exporting facilities in
> table.el

This seems reasonable, but how much are the wiki and MediaWiki formats
used as possible receptors for table.el output?  I'm not sure it seems
worth the code, but I may be totally wrong...

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