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Table-cell addressing: row/column locators in grammar, scene, and selector ladder #58

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@AminChirazi

From the actualbudget/actual migration (field learnings round 2, P2): assertions like "the cell in column X of the row containing Y is empty" need row/column coordinates, not flat text anchors.

One coherent piece across three layers (see the "Design notes" section in docs/design.md):

  • scene(): expose table structure — column headers and row anchor text — so authoring can ground cell references.
  • Grammar: a locator suffix like in the "<column>" column of the "<row>" row on the existing field/target forms.
  • Selector ladder: a structural tier that records header text + row anchor (not indices), so replays survive column reordering.

Workaround today: nth ordinals address row-anchored text for stable layouts.

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https://claude.ai/code/session_01QCp4epPiULuqwoeSuZK7bj

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