From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg 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 21:14:23 +0200 Message-ID: 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 1494968916 18919 195.159.176.226 (16 May 2017 21:08:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 21:08:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 16 23:08:32 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 1dAjho-0004q5-MH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 May 2017 23:08:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44135 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dAjhu-0005hM-9U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 May 2017 17:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48806) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dAjh3-0005fa-R2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 May 2017 17:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dAjh1-0005eY-C2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 May 2017 17:07:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=44718 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dAjh1-0005e6-4f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 May 2017 17:07:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dAhvM-0002kA-JM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 May 2017 21:14:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:f6ExywCrcvi/BY0KzSr0stWtNg0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:113040 Archived-At: Tomas Nordin wrote: > 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 hope there was no tabs in > the description. How big is the buffer? Often one can do such edits manually pretty quickly. Get some work on your finger habits/muscle memory in the bargain. May come in "hand"y :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573