From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: exporting from emacs to excel Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:56:02 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <6c041653-184b-411f-bb1f-ce5042f5f79a@s1g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232005317 650 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2009 07:41:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:41:57 +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 Jan 15 08:43:09 2009 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 1LNMsc-0000o0-74 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:43:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36849 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNMrL-00014z-Lv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:41:47 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 220.225.70.2 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1232002562 26886 127.0.0.1 (15 Jan 2009 06:56:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:56:02 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=220.225.70.2; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 PT-PROXY1, 1.1 PT-PROXY2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166016 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:61341 Archived-At: Thanks Colin, Paul, Xah for the comments and tips. Here are some clarifications. excel is not a choice its a given; emacs-org is the choice! The context: Our organization has a web-based system for logging hours which can be slow at times. It has a facility to upload the hours in an xls format so thats where the given comes from. So csv also is not an option in itself except as a hopping point between emacs and xls. Assuming I use that hopping point the task breaks up into 3: 1. Write elisp code to scrape an org mode file containing hours clocked (in a suitable format) and write it to a csv file (in a corresponding format) 2. Write a wscript script to read in the csv into excel and write it out as xls 3. Write a ??? script to upload the output of 2 to the server Even if we ignore 3, I was seeing what it would take to combine 1 and 2 into a 'one-click' solution (rather one-M-x solution) that would convert my org record into an xls file. Xah: Ive not really thought about 1 (and perhaps the better place to pursue it would be the org mode list). I will do that if the other parts seem workable. Colin: The link you sent seems to be some other lisp? Or does it work in elisp?