From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Otterson Subject: feature request: org-table-import without temp files Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:28:42 -0700 Message-ID: <463240DA.2020201@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1439641941==" Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HhVHR-0005qz-7c for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:34:53 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HhVHP-0005qn-OM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:34:51 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HhVHP-0005qk-Hv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:34:51 -0400 Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu ([140.142.33.19]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HhVBW-0007OB-JK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:28:46 -0400 Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l3RIShqE021785 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:28:43 -0700 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 --===============1439641941== Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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:

In the original text file, copy the tabular part into the kill ring with C-w or equivalent
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

In the original text file, select the tabular data and type M-x org-table-import-to-kill-ring
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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