A few comments about org-pretty-table

[Yevgnen]

The + does not work with GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin20.1.0, Carbon Version 164 AppKit 2022.1) of 2020-11-15 and org 9.4/9.5-dev.

[Fuco1]

The code for the + is already there, probably just doesn't work anymore :D Although I don't think org table syntax changed at all. Weird.

         ((equal "+" match)
          (cond
           ((and (eq (following-char) ?-)
                 (save-excursion
                   (backward-char 1)
                   (eq (preceding-char) ?-))
                 (save-excursion
                   (backward-char 1)
                   (previous-line)
                   (eq (following-char) ?|))
                 (save-excursion
                   (backward-char 1)
                   (next-line)
                   (eq (following-char) ?|)))
            (put-text-property (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0) 'display "┼")
            t)

The hyphen fix should be quite simple, we need to find the table, then get its limits (org-table-begin and org-table-end) and then use narrow-to-region to limit the scope of replacement.

I don't think I'll work on this in the future, I think I did it basically as a demo for someone who was interested in text properties and stuff.

But who knows, I'm doing a lot of presentations with https://github.com/takaxp/org-tree-slide lately so pretty tables might come handy some day. But no promises.

[tecosaur]

Thanks for getting back to me, and outlining the fix :)
I'll be overjoyed if I see this in the future.
Unfortunately, I'm lisp-illiterate — so I'll just hope for now.

[daemianmack]

I'm intermittently experiencing the same issue with the + character.

For what it's worth, disabling the mode and re-enabling org-pretty-table mode seems to fix the issue.

(GNU Emacs 28.0.50, stock org-mode.)

[Fuco1]

I've pushed some code to fix the + and other issues. If this resurfaces please let me know 🙏

[Fuco1]

It changes hyphens - for the entire buffer, not just tables

I also fixed this