> But there is something wrong with the Emacs integration here. Whether I run
> the daemon with `emacs --daemon` or interactively with `M-x server-start`, I
> can't eval my tables. Consider this minimal example:

> | item | Qty | Price | Sum  |
> |------+-----+-------+------|
> | A    | 10  | 2300  | 4600 |
> | B    | 1   | 3500  | 7000 |
> | C    | 0   | 1000  | 3000 |
> | M    | 0   | 3700  | 7400 |
> #+TBLFM: $4=($2*$3)

> Interestingly, if I launch the Emacs server interactively and watch it
> working, it will go and ask the user about re-reading the file that's
> modified. Not fit for a background process! Sometimes the
> `~/org-tbl-block.org` is left with incorrect information but most of the
> time, the data remains unmodified.

> Now this looks an Emacs error to me. I think I saw some documentation
> mentioning something about modifying `.emacs` but no instructions found!

>> But there is something wrong with the Emacs integration here. Whether I run
>> the daemon with `emacs --daemon` or interactively with `M-x server-start`, I
>> can't eval my tables. Consider this minimal example:

>> | item | Qty | Price | Sum  |
>> |------+-----+-------+------|
>> | A    | 10  | 2300  | 4600 |
>> | B    | 1   | 3500  | 7000 |
>> | C    | 0   | 1000  | 3000 |
>> | M    | 0   | 3700  | 7400 |
>> #+TBLFM: $4=($2*$3)

> Mike --

> Not sure what problem you're seeing, but in investigating I did
> discover a bug.  Keep in mind that I have not investigated this on
> Linux yet, only on my Windows install.  Emacs server works slightly
> different on Windows.

> The table evaluation works fine if I have an emacsserver and
> emacsclient running before issuing the eval command in VimOrganizer.
> If I rely on the Vim command to autostart Emacs then it hangs up
> somewhere in the process.  I then need to quit Emacs to get control
> back in Vim.

> Not sure whether there are problems with any other VimOrganizer/Emacs
> interaction on first invocation where Emacs server is started.  I
> think it works fine for all the export functions, so I'll have to
> check how this table eval stuff is different.

>> Interestingly, if I launch the Emacs server interactively and watch it
>> working, it will go and ask the user about re-reading the file that's
>> modified. Not fit for a background process! Sometimes the
>> `~/org-tbl-block.org` is left with incorrect information but most of the
>> time, the data remains unmodified.

> It won't do this if things are set up correctly, at least if the table
> eval (or code, for code blocks) is not causing an error within Emacs.
> Your table evaluates fine in my setup so long as I make sure to have
> the EmacsClient open in Windows (Windows doesn't need explicit command
> to start the Emacs Server).

>> Now this looks an Emacs error to me. I think I saw some documentation
>> mentioning something about modifying `.emacs` but no instructions found!

> There are some suggested functions to add to .emacs file but I think
> they all have to do with minor on-the-fly format conversions, not with
> table eval.   I don't think those would be the issue.  To make sure
> this isn't problem you can find the code at :h
> vimorg-orgmode-conversion in help docs.

> Hope that helps.  I will investigate problem I see with table eval
> hanging when Emacs is not running prior to invoking the eval command.

> Regards,

> Herb