From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tomas Nordin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is it possible to move a column where column on right is variable width Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 23:56:44 +0200 Message-ID: <877f1ga2jn.fsf@fliptop> References: <0b6f7632-f4c0-47c9-b3fb-b5d554c358c1@googlegroups.com> <87wp9gprde.fsf@fliptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1494971854 17482 195.159.176.226 (16 May 2017 21:57:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 21:57:34 +0000 (UTC) To: Angus Comber , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 16 23:57:29 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dAkT7-0004JX-V2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 May 2017 23:57:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44307 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dAkTD-0007Nt-MF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 May 2017 17:57:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33720) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dAkSe-0007Nm-7G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 May 2017 17:56:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dAkSb-00020o-0f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 May 2017 17:56:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]:39867) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dAkSa-00020X-QO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 May 2017 17:56:52 -0400 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C058320A7E for ; Tue, 16 May 2017 23:56:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 3wSB9m4PzMz100f; Tue, 16 May 2017 23:56:44 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87wp9gprde.fsf@fliptop> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 185.67.36.66 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113041 Archived-At: > Here is a suggestion using GNU sed > > C-x h mark-whole-buffer > C-u M-| shell-command-on-region (with prefix to output in buffer) > > then yank this as the shell command > sed -E 's/(.+)\t(.+)/\2\t\1/' and to spare your finger muscles, just yank this into the shell sed -E 's/(.+)\t(.+)/\2\t\1/' LSE.txt > LSE-swap.txt