From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Scott Otterson <scotto@u.washington.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feature request: org-table-import without temp files
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 12:59:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5efbb3d5d7807f642a7d4a5f691c7d72@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <463240DA.2020201@u.washington.edu>
On Apr 27, 2007, at 20:28, Scott Otterson wrote:
> 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
2 In the org-file, with the cursor at the place for a new table,
type
C-y to yank the data
C-x C-x to activate the yank as the region
C-c | to convert the region to a table.
I guess this is easy enough?
- Carsten
> 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
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2007-04-27 18:28 feature request: org-table-import without temp files Scott Otterson
2007-05-01 10:59 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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2007-04-29 1:51 Scott Otterson
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