From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_B=F6cker?= Subject: Tip: How to copy&paste a table from Firefox to Org Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:33:27 +0200 Message-ID: <4C619B77.2090908@jboecker.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45137 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiteC-0002Gd-SW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:34:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oitdk-0000hN-GF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:33:33 -0400 Received: from smtp01.worldserver.net ([217.13.200.36]:58190) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oitdk-0000gy-7R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:33:32 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.61] (vz180.worldserver.net [80.81.243.80]) (Authenticated sender: postmaster@jboecker.de) by smtp01.worldserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5BB0620040 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:33:28 +0200 (CEST) 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: Org Mode Hi all, posting in case this is useful to someone else: I just figured out how to copy & paste tabular data from Firefox to an Org buffer (in my case: a train schedule from www.bahn.de). - Select data in Firefox - Paste into Org, select it as the region - M-x replace-regexp C-i \ | ^ | C-i inserts a tab character (you can also use C-q instead). We replace each beginning of a line and each tab character with "|". - Place the cursor on the table and press C-c C-c to align it