From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Otterson Subject: feature request: org-table-import without temp files Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:51:47 -0700 Message-ID: <4633FA33.9020906@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hhyfw-0005lO-Hu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:58:08 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hhyfw-0005lC-0r for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:58:08 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hhyfv-0005kz-Pu for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:58:07 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HhyZu-0004cf-4b for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:51:54 -0400 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D4172190F8 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:51:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (unknown [209.91.60.150]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2407D232 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:51:54 -0400 (EDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Lately, I've been creating a lot of tables from text from text files containing a mix of English text and columnar data (the stuff I'm importing). This is pretty easy to do in org-mode: save the columnar data to a temporary file and then run M-x org-table-import. But it would be even easier if I could import the data without the temp file step. One way to do this could be to add a new function, org-table-import-from-kill-ring: 1. In the original text file, copy the tabular part into the kill ring with C-w or equivalent 2. In the org file, with the cursor at the place for the new table, type M-x org-table-import-from-kill-ring Another way could be to add a new function, org-table-import-to-kill-ring 1. In the original text file, select the tabular data and type M-x org-table-import-to-kill-ring 2. In the org file, put the cursor where you want the table and type C-y Or, maybe there are more clever ideas? Scott