From: hector <hectorlahoz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to move a column where column on right is variable width
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 08:17:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170518061729.GB2833@workstation> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b6f7632-f4c0-47c9-b3fb-b5d554c358c1@googlegroups.com>
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 09:34:02AM -0700, Angus Comber wrote:
> I downloaded a file, LSE.txt from this link:
>
> http://www.eoddata.com/Data/symbollist.aspx?e=LSE
>
> which is of the form:
>
> symbol<tab>Description
>
> the description is pretty free form. Here are some examples:
>
> 06GG.L BARCLAYS BANK PLC UNDATED FLTG RATE PRIM CAP NOTES'2'USD
> 06GL.L NATIONAL GRID GAS 8.75% BDS 27/6/25 GBP(VAR)
> 07OZ.L HAMMERSON PLC 6.875% BDS 31/3/20 GBP(VAR)
>
> What I would like to do is swap so it displays:
> Description<tab>Symbol.
I think it is already solved but just another approach.
Lately I tend to use macros for a lot of things.
It is a way of programming without having to know
the syntax. Very easy and very powerful if you don't care
much about efficiency.
Record this macro:
C-SPC ; set mark at the beginning
M-x search-forward RET C-q TAB RET ; go past the first TAB
C-b ; go backwards
C-d ; delete TAB
C-w ; kill region (the first field)
C-e ; go to end of line
C-q TAB ; insert TAB
C-y ; yank the first field
Then just repeat it for all the lines (apply-macro-to-region-lines)
and that's it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-18 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-16 16:34 Is it possible to move a column where column on right is variable width Angus Comber
2017-05-16 17:38 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-16 19:11 ` Joost Kremers
2017-05-16 19:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-16 19:32 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-16 18:51 ` Tomas Nordin
2017-05-16 19:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-16 21:56 ` Tomas Nordin
2017-05-17 1:17 ` Skip Montanaro
2017-05-17 2:05 ` Ben Bacarisse
2017-05-17 6:22 ` Loris Bennett
2017-05-18 6:17 ` hector [this message]
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