From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "weber" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Keep-only-column Date: 8 Feb 2007 11:23:35 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1170962615.632938.25870@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> References: <1170962128.311804.182850@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170963675 23732 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2007 19:41:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:41:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 08 20:41:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HFF8f-0003tA-MY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:41:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFF8f-00073o-6g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:41:01 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!postnews.google.com!j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.213.54.31 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1170962632 4017 127.0.0.1 (8 Feb 2007 19:23:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:23:52 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1170962128.311804.182850@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 fw.datacom-telematica.com.br:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE6) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=200.213.54.31; posting-account=pG57fA0AAADtQ-4h1MyvjXjZpSNZC0zj Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145369 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40975 Archived-At: On 8 fev, 16:15, "weber" wrote: > hello again! > Quite frequently I paste stuff which is space-separated. > I would really like a function that would let me select a region and > keep only a column, deleting all the rest. > Anyone knows how I could implement something like this? > I can do it with regexps, but then I have to come up with a new one > every time... > TIA > HS I think the format of "stuff" can't be understood from above :) Here it is: variable BLABLA = 438438 variable LABLAC = 312 variable DAUSH = 43538 Apply to that region: keep-only-column 2 makes it: BLABLA LABLAC DAUSHD Thanks again HS