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From: "Jan Böcker" <jan.boecker@jboecker.de>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Tip: How to copy&paste a table from Firefox to Org
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:28:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C623510.7050205@jboecker.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hbj2apsd.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>

On 08/11/2010 03:42 AM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> Jan Böcker <jan.boecker@jboecker.de> writes:
> 
>> 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 <RET> C-i \ | ^ <RET> | <RET>
>> 	
>>   C-i inserts a tab character (you can also use C-q <TAB> 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
> 
> Isn't this the same as
> 
>   - Select data in Firefox
>   - Paste into Org. 
>   - C-x C-x (select it as the region)
>   - M-x org-table-convert-region
> 
> ?
> 
> -Bernt

Yes, it is.
I should read the manual more often to discover cool features like that!

Btw, org-table-convert-region is also bound to C-c |, which would make
the steps:

- select data in firefox
- C-y  C-x C-x  C-c |

Thanks a lot, Bernt! You see, that's the other reason I posted: I knew
if I had overlooked a much faster way, someone would point it out to me :)

- Jan

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-11  5:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-10 18:33 Tip: How to copy&paste a table from Firefox to Org Jan Böcker
2010-08-11  1:42 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-08-11  5:28   ` Jan Böcker [this message]

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